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GUJRANWALA, Nov 24: The local Transport Society and owners of public vehicles have arbitrarily enhanced fares and then get it verified through the Regional Transport Authority (RTA).
Citizens on Sunday strongly protested against the monopoly of RTA and transporters and demanded that an impartial inquiry should be conducted against them.
They alleged that transporters were charging Re1 to Rs2 per stop more from the passengers travelling between Wazirabad-Ghakkhar-Gujranwala-Eminabad-Kamoki and Qila Dedar Singh. Since the oil and diesel prices had fallen considerably the fares should have rather been reduced, they opined.
SHOT AT, INJURED: A woman was shot at and injured on Sunday by the landlord during a rape bid in Fatumand.
The victim ‘S’ hired a portion of the house from Nazir Ahmad. On Sunday, she was alone in her house when Nazir came in and tried to rape her. He shot at and injured her for raising an alarm. She was rushed to the local DHQ Hospital in critical condition.
ARRESTED: At least 50 shopkeepers and violators of ihtarame Ramazan ordinance were arrested on Sunday by a joint raiding team of the district administration and police in different parts of the city.
Police arrested 35 shopkeepers, including butchers and grocers, from Thanewala Bazaar, Peoples Colony Bazaar, Hafizabad Road and Bakhatewala Road for not displaying rate lists and overcharging.
Over a dozen people were caught red-handed while violating the ihtarame Ramazan ordinance from various hotels near the railway station and General Bus Stand. The magistrates fined them Rs2,500 collectively while the shopkeepers were sent to jail.
POs HELD: The district police claim to have arrested 35 proclaimed offenders and five gangs of dacoits and robbers during a grand operation here on Sunday.
SSP Saud Aziz said that arrested POs were wanted by police in dozens of incidents of dacoity, robbery and other heinous crime. He said police also recovered 12 rifles, 10 guns, 25 pistols, eight revolvers, a carbine, two pump action guns and 500 cartridges from their possession.
A case has been registered against them.
DACOITIES: Dacoits looted two houses and several passers-by in five strikes in and around the city on Sunday.
Six dacoits stormed into the house of Munir in Dhehla Chattha and held up the inmates. They collected Rs120,000 in cash, gold ornaments and electronic goods and escaped.
Four armed men forced their entry into the house of Shaikh Ghulam Nabi in Satellite Town and fled after collecting Rs150,000 in cash, jewellery, TV sets, wristwatches and valuables.
Many passers-by were deprived of cash, wristwatches and valuables by robbers on Main Sheikhupura Road.
Two armed men sneaked into the factory of Abdul Rashid on Hafizabad Road and took away a motorcycle.
Abdul Shakoor of Ghakkhar Town was deprived of motorcycle by two robbers on Railway Road.
FOUR KILLED: Four people were killed and 24 others injured in separate road accidents in and around the city on Sunday.
A wagon was on its way to Naushera Virkan from Kamoki. Near Tatley Mor, it collided head-on with a tractor-trolley. Wagon driver Aslam died on the spot, while 12 others sustained critical injuries. The injured were taken to the local DHQ Civil Hospital.
Ghulam Rasul of Panwari village was knocked down by a bus on the GT Road in Kamoki.
A coaster rammed into a roadside tree after crushing a passerby, Ashraf, near Nandipur Upper Chenab canal bridge on Sialkot Road. Some 12 passengers were injured in the accident.
A grocer, Munir, was run over and killed by a wagon on Alipur Chattha Road.
