Two BISE officials sacked

Published May 25, 2008

GUJRANWALA, May 24: An intermediate examination centre superintendent and his clerk were sacked for misconduct and deputing another staff without permission at Alipur Chattha on Saturday.

Reports said a Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Gujranwala, squad found during checking that superintendent Malik Muhammad Azam had deployed the vigilant staff and the clerk on his own accord.

The squad reported the matter to BISE Chairman Akram Chaudhry who took a serious notice of it and sacked the superintendent and his staff immediately.

LOOTED: Robbers looted the house of an industrialist and also took away two motorcycles in three different strikes in and around the city on Saturday.

Reports said 10 bandits entered the house of Khalid Mahmood in Wahdat Colony by scaling its boundary wall. They held hostage the inmates, locked them in a room and escaped after collecting 70-tola gold, Rs200,000 in cash, cell phones and other valuables.

Two robbers intercepted Arshad Mahmood of Satellite Town and Riaz Ahmad of Baghbanpura and deprived them of their motorcycles and cell phones. Police are looking into the matter.

RESENTMENT: Scores of central jail prisoners raised slogans against the police for keeping them in an official van for hours in intense heat here on Saturday.

According to reports, the police brought prisoners to the district courts and kept them detained in the van for hours.

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