SIALKOT, Oct 29: A notorious criminal escaped from custody by dodging two policemen before his production in a local court in Pasrur city on Saturday. Reports said Pasrur police brought accused Muhammad Irfan alias Fana from the Sialkot district jail for producing him before a court. The accused nominated in several cases of murder, dacoity, robbery and other henious crimes, somehow dodged the policemen and escaped.
A case has been registered against the policemen, Aslam and Shahbaz, for their alleged negligence.
Four held: Sambrial police on Saturday claimed to have arrested four traffickers and recovered 16 kgs of hashish from their possession.
Daska ASP Ali Javaid Anwar Malik told reporters that the accused were identified as Zafar Iqbal of Gaunjiyaanwali village, Abid of Saahowala village, Sarwar of Rohaila village and Saeed Ahmad of Kasur.
The ASP said the arrested criminals were sent to jail after registering separate cases against them.
ABDUCTED: Four armed people allegedly abducted two daughters of a labourer at gunpoint at Chak Gillaan, Daska, on Saturday.
Reports said Qaisar alias Billa, Raheela Bibi, Shehzad Shah and Shahid entered the house of Ashiq Husain and kidnapped his daughters ‘S’ and ‘M.’
Daska Saddar police have registered a case with no arrest or recovery.
HOSPITAL: The local business community has established a well-equipped 200-bed hospital at Balakot for providing free medical facility to earthquake victims.
This was stated by Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Dr Nouman Idrees Butt and senior vice-president Faisal Mehmood Khan while talking to reporters here on Saturday.
They said all the trade bodies in the export-oriented city had so far donated relief goods worth Rs200 million to the quake victims.
The business community was bearing all the expenditures of dozens of seriously injured survivors at the Sialkot CMH and other government hospitals in Daska, Sambrial, Pasrur, Shakargarh and Narowal, they said.
Meanwhile, more and more people are coming to Sialkot and Narowal from the quake-hit localities.
As the influx is increasing by the day, hundreds of people have to live in the open in both districts as the local governments have yet to take measures to accommodate them properly.
Several families have shifted to the houses of their relatives in Sialkot, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Uggoki, Pasrur, Chawinda, Badiana, Shakargarh, Zafarwal, Noorkot and other areas.