Chandeliers recovered, claim police

Published December 11, 2002

BAHAWALPUR, Dec 10: Derawar police on Tuesday claimed having recovered stolen chandeliers and arrested four of the accused.

The police claimed that six armed men took away costly chandeliers worth Rs60 million from the ancestral graveyard of the Abbasi family on Thursday last. They hid these chandeliers in dunes in Cholistan.

The police identified the six accused as Zulfiqar Ali, Mohammad Qasim, Nazik Husain Khar, Abdul Rahman, Ijaz Ahmad and Ahmad Khan Bakhsh.

KILLED: A student of the Madressah Arabia Qasmia, Ahmadpur East, was tortured to death allegedly by its administrator and his son a few days ago.

Ilahi Bakhsh alleged his son, Hafiz Mohammad Rafiq, 22, was tortured by Madrassah’s administrator Mufti Abdul Qudoos and his son, Maulana Mahmoodul Hasan, due to which he died.

Mufti Abdul Qudoos and his son have been granted an interim bail before arrest by a court of law.

CASE: The Cantonment police have registered a case against Riaz, Mueid and Ashiq for grabbing state land measuring 100 kanals in Cholistan.

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