HARIPUR, March 22: A case was registered with the Hattar police on Tuesday against adminstration director and three other persons of Dewan Salman Fibres for allegedly murdering a junior supervisor. The case was registered on the complaint of the victim’s father who accused the admin director and three others of pushing the worker down the building. Junior supervisor Talat Habib Babar was killed a few days after the incident.

The factory administration had termed it an accidental death, while Habib Ullah Saadi, father of the deceased, lodged a complaint with the Hattar police station accusing, the factory’s administration director Raja Wilayat and three others, Tariq Mehmood, Muhammad Sharif and Malik Safdar of deliberately pushing down his son from the multi-storey building of Dewan Salman Fibres.

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