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GUJRANWALA, Feb 2: A bus checker was tortured to death by college students over the dispute of checking their tickets in Kamoke on Friday. Reports said that the bus (LXG-1996) was on its way from Lahore to Gujrat when students stopped it by blocking the GT Road near Ghunian village and forcibly boarded it. Students fell into a rage when checker Rana Liaquat Ali of Kamoki asked them to get their tickets checked. They started beating him and killed him on the spot. SP (headquarters) Abdul Qadir Qayyum rushed to the spot along with a heavy police contingent and arrested scores of students. The body was removed to the local DHQ Hospital for autopsy.
Meanwhile, students denied that they had tortured the checker, but admitted that they only exchanged harsh words with him. While doctors also confirmed no torture mark on the body of the deceased. They said the final report would be issued only after the postmortem.
ARRESTED: Over 30 activists of Jamaat-i-Islami, including Naushera Virkan’s Shabab-i-Milli president Mazher Iqbal, were arrested for staging a rally on GT Road in connection with the Kashmir Day on Friday.
Reports said that JI central leader Hafiz Liaquat Baloch had to lead the rally after Friday prayers. Scores of activists of Shabab-i-Milli also reached there by motorcycles and started chanting slogans against the government.
JI secretary-general Saeed Khokher claimed that the police had arrested the activists from their houses to foil the rally. He demanded the immediate release of all activists.
INJURED: Over a dozen passengers were injured when two wagons collided with each other due to fog on Naushera Virkan Road on Friday.
Reports said that the wagon (LHO-340), on its way from Sheikhupura, rammed into another wagon (LHO-4130) coming from the opposite side. Consequently, more than a dozen people, including drivers of both vehicles, sustained injuries. They were admitted to the local DHQ hospital where their condition was stated to be stable.
MURDERED: A divorced woman was found stabbed to death in a field in Kamoke on Friday.
Reports said that deceased Azra Bibi, for being issueless, had been divorced by her husband Muhammad Qayyum of Chak Nazam some 12 years back. In the meantime, her former husband had also died. On Friday, some passersby spotted the body in the field and informed the police about it. The body was shifted to the local Civil Hospital for autopsy.
Police have registered a case and are investigating.
