TOBA TEK SINGH: The SHO of the Toba Tek Singh City police station was suspended after a citizen was found in the lock up without any case registered against him during a surprise visit of Faisalabad Regional Police Officer (RPO) Inamur Rehman Malik.

The RPO ordered the immediate release of the citizen and suspended SHO Sub-Inspector Hakim Ali.

A statement said that the RPO handed over the recovered citizen to his family members and said that police officials who harassed citizens had no place in the police department. The RPO also inspected the front desk, record room, muharrar office and malkhana and cleanliness of the police station.

HOUSE THEFT: Cash, gold ornaments and other valuables worth more than Rs10.3 million were stolen from the house of a retired army official in Lower Colony of Pirmahal.

In his complaint to the Pirmahal police on Tuesday, complainant Muhammad Akram claimed that he and his wife were asleep in the upper storey of the house and came downstairs at around 1:15am.

He claimed that the rooms had been ransacked while 25 tola golden ornaments, Rs350,000 cash and other valuables worth more than Rs10.3 million had been missing. He further told the police that thieves had climbed up into his house by scaling the outer wall and by breaking the cupboard locks.

Police were investigating and have obtained CCTV footage from the locality to trace the culprits.

KILNS DEMOLISHED: Two brick kilns had been demolished and total fines of Rs200,000 were imposed by a joint team of the Environment Protection department and the Punjab Enforcement and Regulatory Authority (Pera) in Kamalia.

The team inspected several brick kilns in the area and dismantled two of them in Chak 717GB on the Wahgi Road and Chak 722GB on Bhoosi Road for violations of not implementing the prescribed zigzag technology standards.

Both kiln owners were also fined Rs100,000 each.

ARRESTED: A man has been arrested by the Faisalabad women police on Tuesday for allegedly embezzling Rs4.5 million of his widowed sister, received from the alleged killers of her deceased husband after reconciliation.

Rabia Asif claimed in her complaint to the police that her husband Asif was murdered on Aug 12, 2024, and a reconciliation was reached with the alleged killers on March 3, 2025.

She claimed that it was decided that her five orphan children would be given Rs4.5 million as compensation. However, she claimed that her brother Naveed Anwar collected and took the money from the accused persons, who were acquitted by the court.

Published in Dawn, October 14th, 2026