SARGODHA: The Sargodha commissioner has decided to auction state land in order to generate income.

This was decided in a meeting chaired by Commissioner Hafiz Shaukat Ali who directed the revenue staff to locate and retrieve the state land and arrange its auction for generating revenue for the government.

The deputy commissioners, ADCRs and assistant commissioners from across the division participated in the meeting through a video link, while additional commissioner coordination was also present.

Mr Ali directed that all field formations should further intensify their efforts to collect revenue and ensure achievement of the set targets. He stressed that practical steps should be taken for the collection of revenues and effective utilisation of government resources. The commissioner said that the revenue collection targets set by the government should be completed by June 30 in any case and no negligence would be tolerated in this regard.

ELECTROCUTED: A youth was electrocuted while another was injured while drilling a tube well in Thathi Shahani village of Sahiwal town on Jhang Road on Monday.

According to sources, during the drilling, an iron pipe hit the main electricity wires and caused severe electric shocks. As a result, 35-year-old Mazhar died and 29-year-old Muhammad Khan was seriously injured. The body as well as the injured were shifted to THQ Hospital, Sahiwal.

ARRESTED: Satellite Town police arrested two suspects involved in robberies and recovered stolen items worth Rs6m from them.

The suspects were identified as Saqlain and Rafiq.

ASP City Waqar Ahmed said both of them had been involved in burglary incidents for a long time and had also committed a crime against a citizen in Satellite Town who had come from Vietnam.

SENTENCED: The court sentenced two men to death and one to life imprisonment in an murder case.

Jhal Chakian police had registered the case and arrested the accused. Pronouncing the verdict, the additional district and sessions judge sentenced Nasr Hayat and Muhammad Qasim to death and imposed a fine of Rs0.5m each on them. The judge awarded life term to Rafaqat to life imprisonment for attempted murder and imposed Rs0.6m fine on him.

Published in Dawn, June 23rd , 2026