By Our Correspondent


GUJRANWALA, Feb 28: The Gujranwala Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has set up 401 examination centres for 130,000 candidates of secondary school certificate examination that will commence on Saturday.

This was stated by board chairman Dr Mohammad Aslam Ghauri and secretary Mohammad Ahtaram Dar at a briefing here on Friday. As many as 108 examination centres have been set up in Gujranwala, 84 in Gujrat, 107 in Sialkot, 46 in Narowal, 33 in Mandi Bahauddin and 23 in Hafizabad districts.

Mobile teams have been constituted to check cheating in the exams, and these would conduct surprise raids at various examination centres throughout the division. A secret information cell has also been formed for monitoring the situation outside the centres.

Around 18 ‘control rooms’ have been constituted at district and tehsil headquarter levels. The heads of educational institutions would serve as resident inspectors in examination centres in their institutions and maintain law and order with the help of police and district administrators.

PRISONERS SET FREE: As many 59 prisoners languishing in jail for minor offences were released by the district and sessions judge, Riazul Hassan Alvi, who visited the jail on Friday.

He also sought the list of those women prisoners who had been detained for minor offences and their heirs were not pursuing their cases.

He visited the barracks and reviewed the arrangements. He directed the jail authorities to provide better facilities to prisoners. He was accompanied by the jail superintendent and other senior officers.

PO SHOT DEAD: A proclaimed offender was shot dead by his rivals in Ferozewala here on Friday.

According to sources, PO Javed Ali, son of Hashmat Ali, was involved in a murder case and had enmity with one Khawer over the issue. He had gone to his village, Ferozewala, to see his parents. He was home when his rivals, including Khawer, allegedly opened fire on him, killing him on the spot. A passer-by, Mohammad Jamil, also sustained bullet injuries and was rushed to the local civil hospital in critical condition.

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