BAHAWALPUR, June 13: The seven arrested Apca office-bearers were sent on judicial remand on Friday after the rejection of their bail applications by a local Anti-Terrorism Court.
They were arrested for allegedly ransacking the office of the Irrigation Superintendent Engineer and inciting the lower grade employees on strike to press for the acceptance of their demands a week ago.
Earlier, the police had registered a case against 18 employees but seven of them were charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The other 11 are on interim bail before arrest till June 17.
BOOKED: Civil Lines police have registered a case against nine officials of the Tehsil Municipal Administration, including two building inspectors, under sections 148, 149, 379 and 109 PPC on the orders of Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur bench.
The high court issued orders on a writ petition of Nawab Din, who had submitted that the respondents lifted his construction material despite stay order.
RENOVATION: A sum of Rs4.3 million will be spent on marble flooring of the historic Jamia Masjid Al-Sadiq, Bahawalpur.
This was stated here on Friday by provincial Auqaf Secretary Javed Iqbal Awan during his inspection of the mosque.
Later, talking to a gathering of notables, he said that the quality of the work would be strictly maintained. MMA’s Deputy Parliamentary Leader in the Punjab Assembly and JI Naib Amir Dr Waseem Akhtar was also present on the occasion.
He assured the gathering that encroachments within the jurisdictions of the Auqaf Department would be removed.
APPROVED: The District Steering Committee at its meeting held here on Friday under the presidentship of its chairman and MPA Makhdum Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gilani approved five uplift schemes of Rs10 million.
These schemes relate to the constituencies of two MPAs of PPP — Shoaib Karim and Dr Muhammad Afzal — in Yazman tehsil areas.
TAKEN AWAY: Thieves took away a motorcycle (BRG-6886) of Sheikh Rizwan who had parked it in the garage of his house in Model Town A.
Police have registered a case.