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TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 17: A rape case was registered against three people three years after the incident on Saturday on the orders of the Lahore High Court.
Akhtari Begum of Chak 327-GB was kidnapped from her village by Amir Ali, Nikki Qasab and Habibullah. They took her to Chak 701/43 GB Peer Kundhiana in Kamalia tehsil and gang-raped her and took her photographs naked.
Chuttiana police in Toba Tek Singh district registered a case. In the meanwhile, the accused got bail before arrest from a Faisalabad anti-terrorism court. Later, they had the case discharged on the plea that the place from where the woman was kidnapped fell in the jurisdiction of Shorkot Cantonment police station of Jhang district. However, the Shorkot police refused to register the case.
Akhtari Begum contacted the Faisalabad DIG who ordered Shorkot Cantonment police to register a case. But the police station concerned defied the DIG’s orders and did not register the case.
Later, she moved the Lahore High Court and on its order the case was registered.
When contacted, a Shorkot cantonment police official said no arrest has so far been made.
PROTEST: The Kamalia Government Premsati Degree College student staged a demonstration outside college on Saturday as a result which traffic remained blocked for more than an hour on Toba-Chichawatni road.
The students were demanding the appointment of more lecturers for MA classes. They said at present there were 18 sections of MA classes but there were only three lecturers in the college.
BREACHES: Stern action should be taken against the influential people, involved in creating breaches at water courses.
This was stated by Pakistan Irrigation Employees Power Union (CBA) leader Allah Baksh Sial in a press statement.
He said the irrigation department had to spend a lot of money on plugging these improvised and unlawful breaches.
At the regulation point of Janiwala irrigation station, he said eight posts, including a sub-engineer and an earth-work-mason, had been lying vacant for the last seven months which was affecting farmers and the staff alike.
Scores of farmers had held a rally a few days ago to protest against the influential cultivators for making several water courses arbitrarily, he added.
