GUJRAT, July 10: As many as 25 health department employees, including three doctors of Kunjah rural health centre, on Thursday tendered their resignation to protest against humiliation of their three colleagues at the hands of a district council’s former official and his musclemen.
The RHC workers alleged that district council’s ex-member Chaudhry Tahir Tarikha and his men thrashed a clerk, Sultan, and peon Bashir, besides humiliating dental surgeon Rizwan without any reason on Wednesday.
The armed assailants also threatened them with dire consequences for approaching police, they alleged.
To mark their protest, the health centre’s staff, including Dr Khalid Mahmood Ghauri and Dr Alia, tendered their resignations with EDO (health) Dr Talat Iqbal.
The EDO, when contacted on telephone, told this correspondent that he had received a written application signed by 25 health workers, and their notice of resignation.
Meanwhile, the patients of Kunjah and its nearby areas faced difficulties in contacting the doctors, who boycotted their routine practice.
CASE: Kunjah police station on Thursday registered a case against 18 Mungowal residents, some of them traders, for demonstrating against a group’s aerial firing at the market.
Reports said some members of Walayat Bagari group were at a shop at Mungowal’s bazaar when some members of Mata group came there and fired in the air.
After the incident, the traders, who belonged to Bagari group, shuttered their shops and took out a rally. They blocked traffic on the Sargodha Road for some time.
The Kunjah police station have registered a case against 13 nominated and five unidentified protesters. Those (Mata group’s men) who fired in the air at the market escaped without any action.
When contacted, the Mungowal Chowki police declined giving names of the protesters.
SHOT DEAD: A man was shot dead by two persons over monetary dispute at Saadat Colony on Thursday.
Afzal was going somewhere along with Naeem when two of his rivals shot dead him.
Civil lines police have registered a case.