HYDERABAD: Two persons received pellet injuries in Latifabad Unit-10 on Saturday during an armed attack over a piece of 112-acre land belonging to the Talpur family of Latifabad Unit-4.

The injured persons, Dilawar, son of Yaqoob, and Mahboob, son of Ramzan, were shifted to the Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) where Mehboob was admitted.

The dispute involved Mir Ehsan Talpur and his nephew, Mir Murad, son of late Mir Fateh Talpur. According to Mir Ehsan Talpur, the land was owned by around 60 to 70 family members and it had been sold to two different builders – Mr Arif and Mr Yamin. He said that Mir Murad owned only 1-37 ghuntas of land but he was resisting vacation of entire land. He said that Murad Talpur was making unjust demands for vacating his piece of land and rather wanted the buyers to pay him for the land he did not own.

He alleged that some armed men entrenched in the cattle pen of one, Jibran Lodhi, opened fire on his man when he went there to talk to them.

The two sides are engaged in a civil litigation in a civil court and the high court.

According to Hyderabad SSP Shahzeb Chachar, the situation was brought under control. He said that it was civil nature dispute and would be settled accordingly.

Mir Murad Talpur told Dawn that he was fighting a case of forged documents of land in civil court and today Ehsan’s men attacked his land. He said that cattle pen owners had been using the land as tenants for a long time with Ehsan’s approval and now he wanted to dispossess them for establishing a housing scheme. Mr Murad said he himself owned 10 acres of the land.

Published in Dawn, May 10th, 2026