TOBA TEK SINGH: Kabirwala Sadar police recovered hundreds of solar plates worth millions of rupees in a raid on a house at Chak 324-JB, Paira, on Sunday, which had been taken away by robbers in a trailer snatching incident.

According to a police official, the robbers had snatched a Lahore-bound trailer coming from Karachi, carrying solar plates, a few days ago from its driver near Kabirwala in Khanewal district.

He said the robbers later unloaded the solar plates from the snatched trailer in a house at Chak 324-JB. The police traced the suspects through geo-fencing and first arrested one of them, Shahbaz Ansari of Chak 320-JB, from Jhang.

On the identification of the arrested suspect, Kabiwala Sadar police raided the house and recovered the solar plates worth millions of rupees. The police also arrested the house owner, Hussain Manzoor.

WOMAN KILLED: A youth allegedly killed his mother for refusing to give him money to buy narcotics at Chak 327-GB,Chuttiana.

According to police, accused Shahzaib Altaf, a drug addict, demanded money from his mother Rashida Bibi (55). When she refused to give him money, Shahzaib allegedly spiked her food with poison, resulting in her death.

The police, arriving on the spot, shifted the body to Chuttiana Rural Health Centre for autopsy and arrested the accused.

HONOUR KILLING: A youngster allegedly killed his minor aunt (mother’s younger sister) for ‘honour’ in Faisalabad on Sunday.

According to FIR registered under sections 302 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code, registered by Rodala police, on the complaint of Constable Amjad Ali, the accused, Muhammad Husnain, had suspicion that his aunt Zahida Perveen, a resident of Chak 376-GB, had illicit relations with a boy of the same village.

On Sunday, Hussain shot Zahida dead over ‘honour’.

Faisalabad CPO Muhammad Ali Zia told reporters that the accused, who had escaped after committing murder, had been arrested.

ARRESTED: Faisalabad’s Mamukanjan police have arrested on Sunday two brothers, Faisal and Kabir, for uploading a video clip on social media exhibiting prohibited bore arms.

Police were also seeking their accomplices, Akbar and Arsalan, who were also seen with them in the video clip.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2023

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