SIALKOT, Sept 25: City Daska police have registered two cases against a proclaimed offender and his accomplices for demanding 'jagga tax' worth hundreds of thousands of rupees from two traders and threatening them with killing all members of their families.

According to the FIR, PO Iftikhar alias Bichhu and his accomplices have become a terror sign in Daska for the local traders, especially Iftikhar Mughal and Ali Mughal, from who they demand money.

Daska police have started investigation.

Meanwhile, 13 armed men kidnapped sports factory worker Muhammad Shahid at gunpoint from near his residence at Mohallah Shah Sharif. Police have registered a case.

Meanwhile, the police have registered a case against 10 students of the Government Boys Degree College, Daska, for beating up a bus driver and conductor.

According to the FIR, the college students beat up driver Abdul Jabbar and conductor Nadeem of Faisalabad-bound bus (Peshawar-K-8455) and some passengers with hockey and wooden sticks and fled away after snatching Rs2,570 in cash from the conductor.

Police have started investigation.

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