Two held as gang selling crabs as black scorpions smashed
TOBA TEK SINGH: A team of the Pirmahal police has arrested two members of a gang who allegedly made a lot of money by selling fake black scorpion.
The gang, police said, got crabs and sold these as black scorpions to people all over the country by altering their features.
District police office spokesperson Attaullah told reporters that Arif Khan and Maqbool Waryam posed themselves as hunters of black scorpions which were exported to foreign countries for being used in curing ailments. The gangsters, he said, would get crabs and colour these with black paint, add tails by pasting some stuff with glue and chopping away some body parts.
He said police had recovered fake scorpions from the custody of the suspects who during initial investigation admitted that they earned millions of rupees from the black scorpion traders by selling fake ones to them.
ACCIDENT: More than 10 people were injured when a bus collided with a truck near Bypass Road in Kamalia on Tuesday evening.
A team of the Rescue 1122 reported that a bus going from Faisalabad to Chichawatni collided head-on with a truck as a result of which more than 10 passengers were injured.
The rescuers provided first-aid to them and shifted Rana Tanweer Ahmad to Kamalia’s Tehsil Headquarters Hospital where doctors referred him to the DHQ hospital in a critical condition.
BAIL: Pirmahal’s Additional District and Sessions Judge Khalid Bashir granted pre-arrest bail till March 2 to suspected rapist Ghulam Hussain Makowana.
The Arrouti police had registered a case on Feb 16 on the complaint of widow Sumera Bibi who said she and her 12-year-son were cutting fodder in their field when Makowana took her son away to show him wheat crop where he overpowered and raped him.
The court directed the accused to submit bail bonds of Rs50,000 and asked him to join the investigation as and when required by police and also attend court on each date of hearing till the disposal of the petition.
The court also summoned the record of the case.
Published in Dawn, February 26th, 2020