TOBA TEK SINGH: Gojra Civil Judge Malik Shahid Ali Khokhar discharged on Sunday under-arrest former PML-N candidate from PP118 Uqbah Warraich in an attempted murder case and released him.

He was arrested from a hotel in Lahore on Saturday when he gave his CNIC for booking a room and his name appeared in police records as a proclaimed offender in the case pertaining to an attempt on life of bus driver Zeshan belonging to Mansehra in 2025.

He was handed over to the Gojra Saddar Police by the Lahore Police. However, his name does not appear in the FIR as an accused but was later added when the complainant mentioned him in a supplementary statement as accused.

The court was informed by the investigating officer of the Gojra Saddar Police about the fact that Uqbah Warraich was inducted in the FIR later during investigation. His counsel, Umar Farooq Bajwa, apprised the court that he had been wrongly included in the FIR, over which the court released him and discharged his name from the FIR.

SUICIDE: A man allegedly committed suicide over a domestic dispute with his family in Gojra in Chak 244 GB on Sunday.

Deceased Muhammad Afzal (65) took poison after a quarrel with his family members. He was shifted to the Gojra THQ hospital where he died.

ENCOUNTER: An alleged robber was killed in an encounter with the CCD in Kamalia late on Saturday night.

A CCD official claimed that a CCD team led by Kamalia in-charge Salman Shahid had set up a temporary picket on a link road where three suspects riding a motorcycle were signalled to stop.

The official claimed the suspects opened fire on the policemen, which was also returned. When the firing stopped, one suspect was found injured by the firing of his accomplices, while two of his accomplices had escaped, the official further claimed.

The official said that he was shifted to the Kamalia THQ Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

He was identified as Qasim alias Kashi of Chak 715 GB, who was a proclaimed offender in a number of murder, robbery and theft cases.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2026