KASUR: On the orders of Punjab Minister for School Education Rana Sikandar Hayat, the chief executive officer of the district education authority suspended four officials from service after a student of Class-III was left in the class before the school building was locked.

The minister launched an inquiry into the incident that happened at the Government Girls School Mustafabad.

Afia, the third-grader, had fallen asleep in her class. She did not wake up after the day finished and all her classmates and teachers left the school.

The watchman locked the classroom as well as the school building without checking the classroom. When the child woke up after a few hours, she raised a hue and cry and called for help from the window of the classroom that was, fortunately, linked to the street.

The locals noticed the child and informed the watchman who opened the school building to get her out. The locals also made a video and uploaded it on social media that alerted the authorities.

After the minister took notice of the incident, the district education authorities suspended from service headmistress Shakeela Majeed, Assistant Education Officer Nida Sadiq, class in-charge Kausar Parveen and watchman Muhammad Arshad and launched an inquiry.

BOOKED: Pattoki Police on Sunday lodged a case against 16 people on charge of humiliating a man for trying to rape a girl child at village Malikpura.

According to the first information report lodged on the complaint of ASI Khalil Ahmed, the residents of Malikpura allegedly caught a man that attempted to rape an eight-year-old girl.

Alarmed by the cries of the minor girl, the residents of Malikpura gathered outside the house where the suspect attempted rape her.

Later, the charged mob decided to punish the suspect. They shaved his head and eyebrows, blackened his face, garlanded him with shoes, made him sit on a donkey and made a round of the area. They also made a video of the incident.

Police claimed to have arrested four suspects, including Akram, Zaka Abid, Khalid and Amjad.

District Police Officer Tariq Aziz, in a press release, said no one would be allowed to take the law into hand. He also established teams for the arrest of the rest of the accused and an inquiry team to probe the matter.

Some months back, a man allegedly gunned down an accused of sexual abuse of a child in the office of a lawyer on the district court premises.

Published in Dawn, April 29th, 2024