SAHIWAL: Following a quarrel between a lawyer and a doctor at a private clinic on Friday night, allegedly over the delay in the treatment of the former’s children, Fathe Sher police have registered two FIRs based on the cross versions of both parties.

According to eyewitnesses, the row erupted at the private clinic of Dr Sajid Mahmoodin Fathe Sher Colony, where Rana Adeel, a lawyer, and his wife arrived with their two children, who were suffering from diarrhea.

They say that the couple got annoyed over the delay in the children’s treatment and started quarreling with the doctor and paramedics.

The eyewitnesses say that situation turned ugly when the doctor’s staff locked the lawyer’s family in a room at the clinic. Some of them allege that the lawyer had a pistol and he threatened the clinic staff with dire consequences.

Incident occurred over ‘delay’ in treatment of lawyer’s two children at a private clinic

Later, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and the Sahiwal District Bar Association (DBA) also intervened on behalf of the doctor and the lawyer, respectively.

A PMA handout issued to the media accused lawyer of highhandedness and hurling threats at the doctor, while the DBA handout condemned the medic and the paramedical staff for their conduct with the lawyer’s wife and children.

Accommodating both professional bodies’ concerns, the police registered cross versions of the both parties and started investigation.

COP MURDERED: A woman allegedly killed her husband, a policeman, because he had contracted second marriage, at 61/12-L village of Chichawatni tehsil.

As per police sources, assistant sub-inspector (ASI), Sher Bahadur, a resident of Okanwala Bangla, posted at Haweli Lakha police station, had married Saira Bibi, and the couple had three children.

However, Saira recently came to know that her husband had contracted second marriage without her permission.

On the second day of Eid, Saira allegedly spiked milk with some intoxicant and served it to her husband, leaving him unconscious.

She then allegedly strangled Bahadur to death with the help of two unidentified men and dumped his body in fields outside the village.

Spotting the body, some locals reported the matter to Kassowal police.

The police collected the body and started investigation.

The sources says that the police picked Saira, who confessed to have killed her husband. Police are looking for her two accomplices.

The body was handed over to Ali Bahadur, a brother of the murdered policeman, after the postmortem examination. An FIR has been registered.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2024

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