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SAHIWAL, Aug 12: Judicial magistrate Mudassar Umar Bodla on Saturday granted bail to the LDA magistrate and his three other employees who were arrested the other day after a clash with a patrol police squad over vehicular collision.
They have been set free after submission of surety bonds worth Rs50,000 each.
LDA magistrate Chaudhry Akhtar Ali, together with his gunman Mujahid Ali, reader Zahid Ali and Amjad Iqbal, was on their way to Lahore when their vehicle hit a patrol police car.
The Yousafwala police arrested them after they indulged in row with the patrol police and registered a case against them under section 16 MPO, 353, 186, 148, 149, 427, 256 of PPC and 11-B of arms act.
PROTEST: Hundreds of Mepco’s rural subscribers on Saturday staged demonstration in front of the rural sub-division SDO’s office against inflated bills.
They demanded suspension of the officials responsible for sending inflated bills.
After inquiry, manager operations Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor Cheema suspended the officials concerned.
ARREST: The Harappa police arrested on Saturday two HBL officers who had embezzled Rs500,000 million which they had drawn from public accounts.
