CHINIOT: A school guard has been terminated from service while the head teacher as well as a teacher had been given major penalties of seizure of service and increment stoppage, respectively, over a dance party at a girls school.
District Education Officer (Elementary/Women) Khadeeja Bukhari has terminated the service of Syed Ijaz Raza, the guard of the Government Model Primary School, Chah Bootianwala, under the Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability Act 2006.
She gave Muqaddas Iqbal, the head teacher of the school, the punishment of five years seizure of service as a major penalty while schoolteacher Samina Batool’s increment had been stopped for two years. A dance party of transpersons was held at the school whose video went viral on social media. The district education authority held a probe into the matter and suspended the above staff from service.
During the inquiry proceedings, the charge of handing over school keys to the unauthorised persons for the dance party proved and the staff was given sentences under Peera Act.
Earlier, the terminated guard also lodged an FIR with City Police Station under the Punjab Sound System Regulations Act 2015 and 188 of the PPC against organisers of the event; however, no arrest was made so far.
SENTENCED: Bhowana Additional and District Sessions Judge Samina Ijaz Cheema has awarded 10-year imprisonment and Rs125,000 fine to a drug peddler, Muhammad Ali, for keeping 1,470 grams of heroin.
Bhowana police were patrolling near Chamra Mor when they were tipped that a notorious drug pusher was present near village Nitherka with a heavy quantity of narcotics. At this, the police rushed to the spot where the suspect tried to flee. Police arrested him and found 1,470 grams heroin from his possession.
He was jailed after registration of a case against him under Section 9-C of the Controls of Narcotic Substance Act 1997 on Dec 12, 2024, and sent the challan to the court.
It was revealed that Muhammad Ali was earlier booked and arrested by Jhang district police in 2023 for selling narcotics. He had got bail in the case and restarted his nefarious business. This time, Jhang District Kotwali Police Station and booked him under the same act.
Published in Dawn, November 5th, 2025
