BAHAWALPUR: On the orders of a court, the Civil Lines police on Saturday booked as many as 25 people for allegedly trespassing on the residence of a government official and harassing his family members to vacate the premises after disconnecting its water and gas connections in the canal colony.

The first information report was registered on the complaint of outgoing SE irrigation Ghulam Mehboob Rabbani, who after police refusal approached the court for the registration of case against sub-engineer Husnain Ahmed. The sub-engineer along with other armed men allegedly stormed the official residence of Rabbani.

According to the SE, he filed a complaint with the court of additional district and sessions judge Fawad Arif on whose orders police registered the case with no arrest so far.

Meanwhile, Gailiwal police station in Lodhran district on Saturday registered a rape case against ‘A’ and his two accomplices for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl.

Complainant ‘S’ said his daughter was washing clothes on a water course at village 19-MI-3R when the suspect along with his two accomplices took her to a nearby sugarcane fields and allegedly raped her. Police have registered a case and are yet to arrest the suspects.

DROWNING: Two young boys drowned in the Sutlej near the city on Saturday.

According to Rescue 1122, Husnain (16) of village No.97-Basti Ghareababad at Chamb Morr near Bahawalpur’s toll plaza and Muhammad Kashif (14) of village Peeli Kothi, Kahror Pakka a, went for fishing in the Sutlej and drowned.

Rescue 1122 retrieved the body of Husnain and shifted it to Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) while the search for Kashif was under way.

FINE: The price magistrates arrested 99 shopkeepers, imposed a fine of Rs1.9 million, registered 12 cases and sealed 19 shops during the current month.

This was stated by Deputy Commissioner Bahawalpur Zaheer Anwar Jappa while chairing a meeting of the price control committee here on Saturday.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2023