TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 12: In a weird exercise of authority, the city police on Thursday registered a case against a rickshaw driver for kidnapping an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) from city’s busiest Clock Tower Chowk and later abandoning him in a suburban village.

According to FIR No 456/08 under Section 365-B of the Pakistan Penal Code, accused Nadeem was driving a motorcycle-rickshaw which did not have a number plate fixed.

ASI Ghulam Abbas signalled the driver to stop and asked him to produce documents of his three-wheeler, but he refused.

The ASI boarded Nadeem’s rickshaw and told him to move towards the police station, but Nadeem instead took Abbas to Chak 325-JB, Dullam, three kilometres away on Toba-Jhang Road.

During the journey, the rickshaw also travelled on a kilometre-long shaky part of road which is under-construction.

The FIR said Nadeem took the ASI to a cattle-yard owned by Abbas Jat and abandoned him. Later, the ASI informed the police on which a raiding team rescued him from the cattle-yard.

According to the police, the accused had fled and raids were being conducted to arrest him.

Protest: Transporters took off their buses from the roads in protest against the students’ attitude in Kamalia on Friday.

The strike caused inconvenience to commuters on the route between Bhussi and Jakhar areas of the Kamalia tehsil.

A spokesman of transporters claimed that about 15 to 20 students got on each bus and they tried to travel free of cost.

He alleged that students misbehaved and maltreated the conductors when they were asked for the fare.

He further said that transporters could not afford more than five students in each bus even if the students ready to pay the fare.

The spokesman demanded of the DPO to depute policemen on the route to save them from the excesses of students otherwise transporters would go for an indefinite strike.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A youth committed suicide by taking poison at Kamalia on Friday. Police said that the deceased had a quarrel with his brother after which he took poison in desperation. He was shifted to the Kamalia THQ Hospital where he died.