GUJRAT: A private school’s principal, his son and three others were booked after a class-IX student was found dead in a washroom of the institute in the People’s Colony area of Gujranwala city on Thursday.

The father of the deceased alleged in the complaint that his son was poisoned to death by a fellow student, seeking a murder case against the suspect.

Rescue 1122 and police sources say that the student, Awais Ahmed, had left his home for school in the morning, but was found dead in a washroom of the school later in the day.

On being informed of the incident, Rescue 1122 and police teams reached the scene and shifted the body to the district headquarters hospital. At the DHQ hospital, doctors conducted an autopsy and handed over the body to the student’s family.

The family said that Ahmed was fine when he left for school.

However, People’s Colony station house officer said the police have started investigation and the cause of death could only be ascertained in the autopsy report that’s being awaited.

Gujranwala City Police Officer (CPO) Rana Ayaz Saleem has directed the Civil Lines SP to hold an inquiry and submit a detailed report on the incident. The police have booked the principal of the private school, Zubair, his son Abdul Hadi and three other students under section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the report of Mohsin Yousaf, the elder brother of the deceased boy.

The complainant alleged that his brother was a sportsman and he had been murdered over jealousy by the suspects.

WORKERS FAINT

At least six workers of a paper mills at Kamoke fell unconscious while working in the unit, allegedly due to the suffocation caused by the emissions from a coal kiln.

Rescue 1122 sources say the workers passed out while doing their duty at a kiln in the mills at Ghania locality of Kamoke city.

They were shifted to the Kamoke Tehsil Headquarters Hospital by the rescue ambulances.

WOMAN DIES

A 90-year-old woman died allegedly when a fire erupted in a house in the Model Town.

The rescuers say the fire was allegedly caused due to a gas heater left burning in a room of the house, where the old lady was asleep.

Published in Dawn, December 13th, 2024