HYDERABAD, Aug 28: Councillors of the Cnion Council No 4, Qasimabad, on Wednesday threatened if false cases registered against Nazim Raees Deedar Hussain Shoro and Naib Nazim Noor Mohammad Shoro of the union council at the insistence of a local landlord and his son were not withdrawn, all the 19 councillors would resign from their posts.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here, the councillors, Ganwar Khan Chandio, Bahawal Khan Chang, Dilsher Khaskheli and Mohammad Qasim Soomro and three other persons of the area said landlord Chaudhry Zulfiqar and his son, Jameel Ahmad, had fraudulently transferred lands of small Khatedars in their names in Shah Bukhari and Mirza Panhwar dehs.

They said cases in this regard were pending in a court.

They said now the landlords were trying to take out an illegal watercourse in Mirza Panhwar deh, survey No. 502 and 561, which was the property of Dilawar, son of Mohammad Ali.

They said against the alleged tyranny of the two landlords, they had approached the Nazim of union council-4, Raees Deedar Hussain, who was a respectable Wadera of the area and decided local complaints.

They said the Nazim summoned Zulfiqar and his son to decide the matter but they refused to listen to any reason and also threatened to construct the watercourse at any cost.

They said false cases were got registered against the Nazim, Naib Nazim, hari councillor Mohammad Hussain Khaskheli and others.

The police had already arrested the hari councillor and two other persons in the case.

The councillors wondered what was the use of the new local bodies system when false cases were being registered against elected representatives.

They appealed to the authorities concerned to take notice of the alleged excesses of the landlord and restore justice.

EXHIBITION: The annual exhibition of design projects and models at the department of architecture, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, was inaugurated on Tuesday.