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GUJRANWALA, June 8: Lawyers observed complete strike in protest against lawlessness and rising incidence of robberies and boycotted courts here on Thursday.
They gathered at the bar room and held a meeting presided over by DBA president Ilyas Rehan and condemned the rise in crime rate.
The participants condemned police for failing to trace the killers of colleague Nadeem Abbas Alvi and the culprits involved in dacoity in the chamber of Mushtaq Mehdi.
They said people were feeling insecure due to police inefficiency. They demanded of higher police authorities and Punjab government to take solid steps for providing protection to the people.
ROBBERS KILL MAN: Five robbers killed an auto rickshaw mechanic for putting up resistance on Ferozewala Road here on Thursday.
Maqsood was intercepted near Kotli Mughala by the outlaws. They snatched Rs5,000 in cash and mobile phone and shot him dead on resisting their bid.
CASE REGISTERED: A case was registered on judicial magistrate’s order against four police officials, including an SHO, for keeping a man in illegal confinement and torturing him without registering a case and asked police authorities to take departmental action against them.
Satellite Town police nabbed Abdul Jabbar from his house, kept him in custody without registering any case against him and tortured him at police station at the behest of his rivals.
Those booked are; former SHO Muazzam Ali, ASI Mahmood Ahmad and constables Muhammad Boota and Imtiaz Ahmad.
They were found guilty in an inquiry conducted by the judicial magistrate.
