TOBA TEK SINGH: An elderly man and a young woman were found murdered in a house located in Kamalabad locality of Faisalabad.

According to the FIR, the Gulberg police SHO claimed that he received information that bodies of landlord Sher Muhammad (68) and his tenant’s wife Ruby Bibi (35) had been found in the upper storey of his house.

He said the bodies were shifted to the Allied Hospital for autopsy and the bodies looked at least four to five days old.

Police claimed that the woman’s husband, Muhammad Shahid, suspected his wife of having relations with their landlord. Over this, the police claimed that he shot both of them dead and fled. A few days ago, the Ghulam Muhammadabad police had registered a kidnapping case on the application of deceased’s son Jawad Hussain.

In his complaint, he had claimed that his father had gone to the graveyard and had been kidnapped from there.

Police were conducting raids to arrest the suspect.

ACCIDENT: A college student died after falling from the door of a running bus near Khanuana Bypass Chowk on Satiana Road on Friday.

According to Rescue 1122, the student was attempting to board the running bus but was crushed to death under the rear tyre of the same bus after slipping. He was identified as Muhammad Ayan (17) of Chak 71 GB.

Meanwhile, a speeding rickshaw hit a woman and her son riding a motorcycle, killing the woman and injuring her son in Gojra on Friday.

Reports said Sikandar Ali of Chak 160 GB was returning to his village from Samundri on a motorcycle along with his mother, Arshad Bibi, when a speeding rickshaw coming from the opposite direction hit them on the Gojra-Samundri Road. They were shifted to the Gojra THQ Hospital in a seriously injured condition. Arshad Bibi was referred to the Allied Hospital due to her critical condition, where she died.

OFFICIAL HELD: The Faisalabad anti-corruption establishment (ACE) claimed to have arrested Patwari Shiraz Ahmad of Chak 232 RB red-handed while receiving a bribe of Rs25,000 on Friday.

According to ACE officials, complainant Ghulam Mustafa of Abdullah Garden Faisalabad had alleged that the suspect had demanded a bribe in exchange for issuing a plot deed.

Acting on the complaint, the ACE team arrested the patwari while allegedly receiving the bribe. A case had been registered against the suspect at the Faisalabad Anti-Corruption Circle police station.

MILL SEALED: A Pirmahal Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) team sealed a textile mill over alleged non-payment of electricity bills.

A Fesco official claimed that the mill had outstanding arrears of more than Rs130 million that had been due for the last three months. On the orders of Fesco Kamalia division executive engineer, teams sealed the outer main gate of the mill.

Published in Dawn, October 24th, 2026