TOBA TEK SINGH: Three clerks of the office of the district coordination officer (DCO) and a naib qasid of collector’s office were booked by the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Monday for issuing fake arms licences.

ACE circle officer Ashfaq Rasool told the reporters that during checking of arms licences data by the district government, anomalies were found regarding 111 licences. When arms licences were computerised, 38 of the licences were tampered with while 73 of them were found having no record with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) or interior ministry.

After an inquiry by the ACE, the DCO Office’s senior clerk Saleem Alvi, record keeper Khalid Pervaiz, junior clerk Hidayat Ali and naib qasid of additional district collector’s office, Muhammad Saleem, had been found guilty of issuing fake licences. A case was registered against them.

The suspects had not been arrested yet. The ACE would conduct a detailed probe into the case and more employees of the DCO office are likely to be involved in the case.

DCO Amer Ijaz Akbar had written to ACE for inquiry and registration of case.

KILLED: A youth killed his sister in Chak 732-GB near Kamalia for refusing to marry an old man.

Relatives of Mehran Bibi, 22, told Kamalia Sadar police that she had refused to marry an old man with whose sister her brother Allah Ditta wanted to marry. When she refused, Allah Ditta shot her dead and escaped.

In another incident, body of unidentified young woman has been recovered from Wahgi Canal near Kamalia. Farmers saw the body and informed the police.

The woman’s feet were tied with a rope while a rope was found around her neck. Police shifted the body to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Kamalia for autopsy.

Meanwhile, a seminary student died of heart attack in Pirmahal.

Police said the boy, identified as Umair Ashraf, student of Darul Uloom Saheb-i-Loalak was shifted to hospital where breathed his last.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2016