LAHORE, April 18: A consumer court on Monday issued a notice to the station manager (operations) of an international bus company for May 11 on a complaint seeking damages of over Rs1 million for allegedly misplacing a laptop of a senior government official. Complainant Dawood Muhammad, health department’s additional secretary (establishment), contended that he had his laptop booked at the respondent’s office at Kalma Chowk for Karachi on Feb 28. He said Daewoo Bus Service staff misplaced the laptop when the consignment reached Karachi.

He told court he had purchased 2,000 costly research papers from different websites and the price of each of them was between 20 and 52 dollars.

He said the respondent, on his complaint, replied that an inquiry was under way. He said on March 7 he met company official Syed Tahir Ali and asked him about the inquiry, but he couldn’t satisfy him.

The complainant said the respondent did not even bother to reply him to a legal notice. He said company officials lost his laptop owing to negligence, carelessness and non-professional attitude. He prayed to the court to direct the respondent to pay him Rs1.06 million as damages and for the mental agony he had to suffer.

REJECTED: The FIA arrested a Lesco XEN of the Kot Lakhpat area after the rejection of his bail plea by a local court here on Monday.

The anti-corruption cell of the FIA had recovered Rs0.1 million from the custody of Raja Liaquat sometime back. The accused took bribe for providing an industrial connection and to reduce a detection bill.