TOBA TEK SINGH: An alleged robber wanted in five murder and 34 robbery and theft cases was killed in the wee hours of Wednesday by the Bara Ghar Police in Nankana Sahib district.

Police said SHO Feroz Bhatti along with a team was patrolling on the Syedwala Road when they saw deceased Amjad Jeera and his two accomplices taking away three stolen animals.

Police claimed that they opened fire on the policemen, which was also returned. When the guns went silent, police searched the nearby fields and found the accused dead while his accomplices had escaped leaving the stolen animals there. Police claimed that the deceased received bullets fired by his two accomplices.

It is to be mentioned here that the accused had managed to escape after an encounter with the Faisalabad CCD police a week ago in which one of his accomplice Shafqat Athwal was killed.

ARRESTED: A Faisalabad anti-corruption establishment (ACE) team claimed to have arrested a patwari for taking a bribe on Wednesday.

ACE Assistant Director Sarfraz Warraich said that accused Chak 55 JB circle patwari Munib Ahmad received Rs96,000 from farmer Alamgir for correcting his farmland ownership record. He said that a judicial magistrate recovered the marked currency notes from the custody of the accused.

Published in Dawn, January 15th, 2026