LARKANA, Nov 19: The Larkana Development Authority (LDA) banned the sell and purchase of plots in seven unauthorized housing colonies in Larkana.

These include Gulshan-i-Sikandar, Moazzam Colony, Mehran Teachers Colony, Asad Abad, Hussain Abad, Saifullah Lohar Colony and Primary Teachers Colony, said the Assistant Director of LDA Aftab Ibrahim Siddiki here on Monday.

The LDA warned the owners of such colonies to get their housing schemes regularized and advised the intending purchasers not to invest in such colonies for they had violated the town planning regulations. They had also not allocated plots specifically for recreation, mosque, appropriate roads and lanes.

The LDA also wrote to the sub-registrar and Muhktiarkars of the area to desist from registering plots in such colonies and no plot should be transferred in any other owner’s name till the clearance from LDA.

CHARGE ASSUMED: Jawed Odho has assumed the charge of Additional Superintendent of Police, Larkana, on Monday. He was given the transfer powers of ASIs’, head constables and constables along with drawing disbursing authority regarding the regular salaries of district police, police sources said.

Man guns down wife: Wazeer Ali on Monday morning shot dead his wife Ms Gohar Khatoon in village Raees Mir Gadhi near Warah, 50 kilometres off here declaring her as Kari and escaped.

The SHO Warah on behalf of state registered a murder case against Wazeer Ali and his friend Gul Hassan for more investigations.

This is the second case of Karo-Kari lodged on behalf of state under a new strategy adopted in Larkana by district government in consultation with the police.

MEDICINE THEFT: The management of Chandka Medical College Teaching Hospital (CMCTH) on Monday handed over its two employees to police for allegedly involved in the misappropriation of hospital medicines.

The driver of the Medical Superintendent laid hands on a suspect Ghulam Mustafa Memon and dug out that he was carrying hospital medicines hidden in the vest pouches, covered with shirt.

He was produced before the MS of CMCTH and from his pouches Inj: Diclo (150), Inj: Teriflex (6), Inj: Renitine (5) and Inj: Ampililline 500mg (10) were recovered bearing the stamp of Sindh government property.

The ASP city Alam Khan Shunwari arrived at the scene and took the boy and the medicine into his custody.

The boy had pointed towards the storekeeper of CMCTH teaching block A.S. Leghari and Nanik Ram working in the same hospital and they were picked up for further investigations.

The medical superintendent of CMCTH Hussain Bakhsh Memon told this correspondent that both the hospital employees had been placed under suspension and a departmental inquiry would follow.

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