KASUR, Dec 1: An army sepoy on Wednesday shot dead a 50-year-old man who was allegedly trying to enter a Cantonment ammunition depot in the limits of B-Division police station.

According to the FIR, an unidentified 'suspected militant' entered the ammunition depot, camp No 4, near Police Line on Abdul Khaliq Road. As the army personnel tried to intercept him, he did not stop on which sepoy Mahboob Ahmed, after a warning, shot the suspect. He died on the spot.

On receiving information about the incident, intelligence agencies and security personnel besieged the cantonment area.

B-Division police registered a case (No 580/10) under the army act of 1923 on the complaint of Maj Mahmood Ahmed and were thrashing out the matter.

The identity of the deceased could not be ascertained. The body was moved to DHQ Hospital for autopsy.

According to SHO Hasan Farooq, no arms or ammunition were recovered from the suspect.

It is learnt the suspect, who was in rags, seemed to be mentally retarded.

RAPED: A teenage girl was raped in Phoolnagar after being kidnapped from Sheikhupura district on Wednesday.

According to police, the accused Saeed, Sajid and Anjum allegedly kidnapped Maria, 13, from Manawala village in Sheikhupura district and brought her to Phoolnagar where Saeed rapped her at an outhouse.

Phoolnagar police have registered a case (No 490/10) on the complaint of Parveen Bibi, the mother of the victim.

DACOITY: Dacoits deprived a lady doctor, her patients and others of gold ornaments, cash and cell phones at a Gulberg Colony clinic in the limits of Sadar police station on Wednesday.

Police said three dacoits barged into Dr Ayesha's clinic and held the doctor, patients and others present there at gunpoint. The outlaws took away five tolas of gold ornaments, cash and five cell phones.

Police are investigating.

In another incident, robbers snatched a motorcycle (KSB-9129), cash and a cell phone from Jamil near Dollaywala village in the limits of Sadar police.

Similarly, Ashiq was deprived of his motorcycle (LEP-3893), cash and cell phone near Sarhali Kalan village in the limits of Mustafabad police station.

CRACKDOWN: The district health department on Wednesday launched a crackdown on counterfeit and substandard medicines.

EDO Dr Aslam Randhawa told media at his office that he had constituted various teams headed by drug inspectors to seize spurious medicines being sold in Kasur, Pattoki and Chunian.

Dr Randhawa said there were 722 registered chemists in the district and the department would take a legal action against illegal pharmacies and those selling fake drugs.