Fatyana, TMO groups test their brawn

Published September 20, 2008

TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 19: The dispute between PML-Q MNA Riaz Fatyana and Tehsil Municipal Officer Rashid Janjua has become a clash of egos as an associate of Fatyana got registered a ‘counter-case’ against the rivals.

On Thursday, the Kamalia city police had registered a case against more than two dozen people, including Riaz Fatyana and Tehsil Nazim Mahmoodul Hassan, on the charge of manhandling the TMO and detaining him in his office.

Among the nominated men was Akram Shaheen, a close friend of Fatyana, who got instituted a case against the TMO, PML-N Secretary-General (Kamalia) Shabbir Hussain Dar and another PML-N activist, Iqbal Ahmad, besides 10 other men under sections 379, 516, 148 and 149 of PPC. Akram alleged that they attacked him and snatched from him Rs2,000 in cash and a mobile phone set.

The complainant claimed in the FIR that when he went on Thursday to the TMO office to apprise the officials of the Anjuman-i-Tajran demands, the TMO asked his accomplices, including Shabbir Hussain Dar and Iqbal Ahmad, to inflict injuries on him (Akram).

The police have accommodated both parties in registration of cases, but did not make any arrest till our going into the press.

BA ADMISSIONS: The Punjab University has agreed to enroll 200 students of BA of the Kamalia government girls’ college, MNA Riaz Fatyana claims.

He was speaking to this correspondent on phone from Lahore on Friday after a meeting with the university officials.

The university had earlier refused to register the 200 girl students with the objection that it had authorised the college management to admit only 50 students in BA classes.

SURPRISE VISITS: District Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar on Friday conducted a surprise visit to a government boys primary school at Mauza Mull Fatyana in Kamalia and found all the teachers and students absent.

He also visited the government veterinary dispensary in the same locality and found no employee. He directed the district heads of education and veterinary departments to inquire into the absence of staff.

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