TOBA TEK SINGH, May 10: The head of a panchayat was arrested on Saturday by police when a district and sessions judge cancelled his bail before arrest.

Lumberdar of Chak 345-GB Khalid Shahid had called to his out house a married woman in the last week of April and blamed her that she had illicit relations with one Bashir Mughal of the same village. He allegedly asked Bashir to rape her in his presence.

The court had earlier granted him bail before arrest.

DEATH SENTENCE: A district and sessions judge on Saturday handed down death sentence and Rs50,000 fine to Shahzad and life term and Rs50,000 fine to Asad, residents of Chak 333-GB, in a murder case.

The judge acquitted their co-accused Javed as prosecution failed to prove charge against him.

The convicts had killed one Muzammal Ahmad of the same village over a minor dispute on June 25, 2002.

CRUSHED: An unidentified schoolboy was crushed under the wheels of a speeding bus near Pirmahal civil rest house on Saturday morning.

The boy, about 12 years of age, was hanging in the window of the bus due to rush when bus conductor Asghar Ali pushed him from the running bus as a result of which he was crushed under one of the rear wheels the bus.

Pirmahal police have arrested Asghar.