Drive to Collect ‘Eidee’

Published December 2, 2001

VEHARI, Dec 1: Local traders have condemned the alleged “Eidee” collection drive launched by the traffic police.

A number of traders organizations, including Ajuman-i-Tajran, steel, leather, and pipe and sanitary, in their statements on Saturday claimed that the traffic police have set up pickets at various places in the city on their own and were collecting Rs100 ‘Eidee’ per vehicle. They did not spare even private vehicle owners, they added.

They demanded of the traffic police high-ups to take notice of the situation and save the public from their highhandedness.

COTTON BURNT: Over 100 cotton bales were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in the Rana Cotton Factory on Dunyapur-Kehror Pucca road on Friday night.

The factory owners said the fire erupted during the repair of factory transformer.

The fire was controlled after six hours’ struggle of Multan, Mailsi, Lodhran and Kehror Pucca fire brigade units.

The loss was around Rs2 million.

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