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TOBA TEK SINGH, July 10: The Anti-Corruption Establishment registered a corruption case against two naib tehsildars, a patwari and their four accomplices here on Thursday.
Naib tehsildars Aslam Wahla and Rana Iqbal, patwari Hanif and their accomplices Younas, Liaquat, Qaiser and Samina were accused of fraudulently selling a farmland of woman Bashiran of Chak 363-JB (Bahminwala), Gojra, some 18 months ago.
Complainant Bashiran had complained to the revenue department for the deletion of bogus transfer of her property, but to no avail.
Later, she submitted an application to the Faisalabad ACE deputy director on whose direction the inquiry was conducted which found the officials guilty of charges. However, no arrest has so far been made.
APPROVED: The tehsil council on Thursday approved a contract of Rs15.5 million for the property transfer fee collection for the new financial year.
The contract was approved in a meeting presided over by tehsil naib nazim Chaudhry Abdul Muneem.
JAIL: The district jail made functional some 18 months ago has no medical officer for its hospital.
More than 1,000 prisoners are facing difficulties due to the absence of treatment facilities at the jail hospital.
An official said that a doctor from the DHQ Hospital visited the jail twice a week to examine the ill prisoners. He said patients were rushed to the DHQ Hospital in case of emergency.
FUNERAL PRAYERS: A large number of people, including politicians, offered funeral prayers of former Punjab forest minister Dr Ashfaqur Rehman on Thursday in his native village 325-JB, Dullam.
Prominent among them were district nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar, former PPP leader Ghiasuddin Janbaz, tehsil nazim Mian Javed Iqbal and former MPA Mian Masood Gadhi.
STRIKE: Two senior lawyers, Mian Abdul Basit and Raja Khalid Mahmood, observed hunger strike on Thursday for the restoration of deposed judges. Punjab bar council member and PBC’s disciplinary committee chairman Arshad Warraich also visited the barroom.
Addressing the lawyers, he said that the July 19 convention would decide the future line of action.
He said if the convention decided to stage a sit-in in Islamabad, the lawyers would not return to their cities and towns till the reinstatement of deposed judges.
