BAHAWALPUR: A married woman was killed allegedly by her jealous boyfriend who had brought her to Lodhran for shopping on Monday.

According to Lodhran police, one Arif Mayo had brought Nasim Mai from Kahror Pacca for shopping in Lodhran city. He brought her to a green area of the railway apartments near the railway station and attacked her with bricks, killing her on the spot. The victim’s face was mutilated and could not be identified.

Early in the morning, a railway gardener, Abdul Ghafoor, saw the body and informed the police. They shifted the body for a post-mortem examination and registered a murder case.

On finding some clues on the victim’s body, the officials contacted the Kahror Pacca police, which had already registered a case of disappearance of Nasim.

The Kahror Pacca police with the help of geofencing and the latest technology traced Arif Mayo and arrested him. The accused admitted that he had killed Nasim Mai, a mother of two, with bricks alleging that she was cheating on him and had an affair with another rival man. He admitted that he had brought her to Lodhran on the pretext of shopping and killed her there.

SAPLINGS: Nine hundred thousand saplings would be planted during the ongoing spring season in Bahawalpur district, said Deputy Commissioner Zaheer Anwar Jappa while chairing a meeting on tree planting campaign.

According to details, 600,000 saplings will be planted in the defence installations, 200,000 in the forest department while 100,000 will be planted by other government departments in addition to 20,000 on the city’s greenbelts.

RATION BAGS: The Lodhran district administration, under a pilot project, delivered over 100 Nigehban ration bags on the doorstep of the registered deserving women.

Lodhran Assistant Commissioner Furqan Hashmi told Dawn the ration bags were distributed on an experimental basis in order to make sure that the deserving men and women received them.

According to Lodhran Deputy Commissioner Abdul Rauf Mahar, the ration bags would be delivered to 136,840 deserving persons in the district before the beginning of Ramazan.

ARRESTED: Tibba Sultanpur police in Vehari district claimed to have arrested a woman, identified Nasim Mai, along with her accomplice, Muhammad Ramzan, and recovered 2,560 gram charas from their possession.

Published in Dawn, March 5th, 2024