NEWS IN BRIEF

Published January 28, 2012

Missing student’s body found

TAXILA, Jan 28: Body of the student who went missing three days ago was found hanging in wooded area in the limits of Wah Cantonment Police station on Saturday.

Police sources said that Mohammad Ali, 15, a student at FG Public School went missing. On early hours of Saturday, some passersby spotted a body hanging on a tree and informed the local police. Police shifted the dead body to THQ hospital Taxila for autopsy. Police sources said that according to preliminary medical report the victim was subjected to assault before he was hanged. — Correspondent

Murder case solved

TAXILA, Jan 28: The Wah Cantonment Police on Saturday claimed to have resolved murder case of female employee of a local sensitive organization and arrested the accused.

Talking to newsmen here on Saturday Sub-divisional Police officer DSP Raja Taifoor Akhter said that tortured body of 30-year-old Sajida Perveen, a female employee of a local sensitive organization was found from graveyard in limits of Wah Cantonment Police Station on December 13. Later police traced Shahid Mehmood, a friend of the deceased through mobile calls data, who during interrogation confessed to the crime. The DSP said that the motive behind the murder was monetary issue. — Correspondent

Shifting of school

GUJAR KHAN, Jan 28: Civil judge Azhar Iqbal Khan on Saturday pronounced decision on the suit against shifting of the Fauji Foundation School to a dangerous building.

The court also directed the concerned authorities to refrain, in future as well, from shifting the school to any such building that may pose security risk or danger to the lives of the students.

The parents of the students enrolled with Fauji Foundation school Negial campus while filing a law suit with the civil court had taken the stance that the local management of the school was keen to shift the campus to a building that was adjacent to a CNG station while 132 KV high transmission line was passing over the roofs of the triple-storey building at the height of six feet only.— Correspondent

Residents request relief

FATEHJANG, Jan 28: Orders of the chief minister (CM) Punjab forbidding hiring services of private persons in revenue department are being violated in Fatehjang, it has been learnt.

According to sources, Mian Shehbaz Sharif on complaints of the masses had issued orders that practice followed by Patwaris of revenue department who had engaged private “Munshis” to assist them in daily revenue work was illegal and the practice should be stopped because it opened doors for corruption.— Correspondent

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