TOBA TEK SINGH, July 8: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has registered a case against the former Gojra city police station house officer (SHO), a sub-inspector (SI) and an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) for allegedly receiving Rs187,000 bribe in a murder case.

SHO Ayaz, SI Maqsood and ASI Bashir allegedly received the money from Irshad, a murder suspect, to declare him innocent in their investigation report. Later, Irshad was acquitted of the murder charge by a court.

After his acquittal, Irshad filed a complaint against the policemen to the ACE and an investigation found them guilty of bribery. As a result, the ACE registered a case against the three policemen and ordered their arrest. ASI Bashir has been arrested. However, SHO Ayaz is in Saudi Arabia to perform umrah, while SI Maqsood has secured bail before arrest from a court.

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT: Deputy Inspector General for Lahore Patrol Police Mian Muhammad Asif said here on Tuesday that the Punjab government had decided to handover the traffic management on highways to patrol police instead of traffic police. Speaking at the inauguration of a patrol police checkpoint on Toba-Gojra Road near Chak 279-JB, Darapur, Asif said an experiment in this regard would be done on Lahore-Faisalabad Road from August 1. kills sister: A youth killed his sister and injured his two cousins before committing suicide here on Tuesday.

Bushra and Saadia of Chak 183-GB, Miankot, told their cousin Rafiq Ansari that they had seen his sister Shabana, 18, in an objectionable condition with a man in an orchard outside the village.

Provoked Ansari stabbed his sister to death when she returned home and then attacked Bushra and Saadia with a knife and injured them critically. Later, he locked himself in a room and slit his throat with the same knife.

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