MIRPURKHAS, Dec 15: At least 19 people, 10 of them landlords, were booked by the Jhuddo police for stealing water on Saturday.

Six of the landlords who were booked were Masto Khan, Yaseen, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Shakoor, Abid, and Sher while the names of the rest could not be ascertained.

They tampered with watercourses No3R, 3L, 5Al and 4R of the Akoto and Dhati Shakhs.

Nine people were booked by the Jhuddo police for forcibly taking water from a landlord.

Mukhtiar Ahmed Bajwa lodged an FIR with the Jhuddo police that Ghulam Hussain, Mehmood Ahmed, Narain, Akkoo, Walloo, Dhani Bux, M Moosa, Maula Bux and Janoo forcibly acquired his share of water on gunpoint and threatened him of dire consequences.

PEASANT DROWNS: A peasant, Somji Kolhi, who was drunk slipped into a watercourse and drowned near Bhit Bhaiti, Khipro Taluka, on late Friday night.

MERCHANT ROBBED: Four armed men stole clothes, cash and a bicycle from a cloth merchant, Ahmed Khan Pathan, near Hassan Talpur village on Saturday.

Mr Pathan lodged an FIR that four men — Gul, Sajan, Latif and Jalal — robbed him of Rs3,000, cloth worth Rs2,000 and a bicycle.