GUJRANWALA, Jan 24: An angry group of villagers set a commuter bus to fire which crushed a minor boy in Wahando on Thursday.

The speeding bus crushed Farman Ali near Shahdola village who died on the spot. The bus driver and conductor escaped from the scene. Residents of the area gathered there and set the vehicle to fire.

STRIKE CALLED OFF: Transporters of Naushera Virkan tehsil on Thursday called off their wheel-jam strike following an assurance by tehsil council Nazim.

The transporters called on Nazim Sardar Tariq Raza who assured them that auction of toll tax collection has been deferred while the collection of tax has been restrained.

IMPRISONMENT: An additional district and sessions judge sentenced a man to 14 years’ imprisonment with Rs300,000 fine for killing his wife while acquitted a woman by giving her the benefit of the doubt.

Convict Muhammad Afzal had killed his wife Rehana over a domestic issue in Tetley village on April 28, 2001. The court acquitted Zahida.

Another additional session judge acquitted Muhammad Nazir and Mahmood Ahmad by giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Prosecution had failed to prove that the accused had killed one Muhammad Farooq in Tetley about two years ago.

POWER THEFT: A joint raiding team of the army and Gepco caught rolling millowners red-handed stealing electricity here on Wednesday.

Gepco chief executive Brig Mushtaq Ahmed had received reports that Haji Itifaq Ahmad and his son Kashif were getting power supply for their mills direct from the main supply lines. The team headed by deputy director Rai Khalid and assistant director (surveillance) Muhammad Mazhar raided the mills and removed the electricity meter and other equipment.

The raiding team also issued Rs0.5 million detection bill besides lodging an FIR against them.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A young housemaid committed suicide by taking poison over a minor issue here on Wednesday.

Nasiban Bibi (15) had been admonished by her woman employer for negligence. She died on the way to the local Civil Hospital.