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BAHAWALPUR, Feb 23: The new security plan implemented on Thursday by police in the district courts compounded troubles for the public, litigants and lawyers.
Under the plan, only one entry and exit point were given for the courts in addition to strict checking of the vehicles, motorcyclists and even the pedestrians.
At the entry point near the residence of DCO, police have put barriers and erected two bunkers with sand bags. Besides, armed personnel have been deployed on both sides of the road leading to the courts.
The District Bar Association has also provided a man to identify the lawyers and their vehicles so that they could enter the courts premises without much hassle.
The vehicles of other people desirous to enter the courts area were thoroughly checked. Motorcyclists and pedestrians were frisked and checked with metal detectors by the policemen. Some policewomen were also deployed to check women.
When asked to comment on the ordeal of people in the name of tight security, DPO Arif Nawaz said the plan had been formed on the directives of the government in the wake of terrorism in some parts of the country.
He said police authorities were compelled to tighten security in view of the increasing number of terrorist activities. He sought people’s cooperation to make the new plan a success.
Kidney Case: Police have arrested one of the four accused in the Nowshehra Jadid kidney sale case.
Complainant Samia Bibi said during her pregnancy her husband Shakil Ahmed tortured her on which she suffered miscarriage and underwent an operation at a city hospital.
Later on, the woman said, their relations strained and she was made to leave her in-laws house. At her parents’ house, she fell ill after some months and was hospitalised where doctors told here that her right kidney had been removed.
The woman said her father Abdul Razzaq arranged a ‘panchayat’ where Shakil confessed to his crime. “I bought a tractor after selling her kidney,” he told the jury.
Samia filed an application with the district and sessions judge for registration of a case against Shakil Ahmed, his father Muhammad Ismail and accomplices Allah Bakhsh and Abdul Hamid.
Nowshehra Jadid police which registered a case under section 334 of the PPC on court’s orders arrested Abdul Hamid.
