TOBA TEK SINGH: Seven alleged extortionists tortured a fruit vendor for refusing to pay them extortion money at Gojra.

The vendor, Usman, alleged in the first information report (FIR) that Rashid and Aqib demanded extortion money from him for selling fruit on a pushcart.

When he refused to pay them, they, along with their five accomplices, gave him a severe beating with sticks. As a result, he was critically wounded and his nasal bone was also fractured.

He added that the suspects also snatched Rs35,000 cash from him.

After the torture video went viral on social media, Gojra City police arrested two of the alleged extortionists after registering case against them.

FUNERAL: Scores of people attended the funeral prayers for Dr Khalid Mushtaq, the dean of social sciences at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad who had died of cardiac arrest the other day.

Dr Mushtaq was driving his car from his Lalazar Colony house to the university to attend an Iftar party when he had a heart attack and his car rammed into the boundary wall of the District Jail.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2024