FAISALABAD, April 17: Police declared the killing of a bus driver as accidental and handed over the body to his heirs without post mortem to save the skin of FWO personnel.

Sources said that driver Qaisar Mehmood was tortured to death by FWO men after a squabble at the Kamalpur Interchange on Sunday morning. The body was shifted to Allied Hospital for autopsy and his relatives were called for legal action.

They claimed that police and influential government officials intervened in the matter and piled pressure on deceased’s heirs to take the body without formal proceedings and legal actions. Nishatabad police entered a report into their daily diary claiming that the driver died accidentally after a scuffle with ‘someone’ at the Kamalpur interchange.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A woman died while her young son was shifted to hospital in critical condition after they took poisonous pills in Samundri on Sunday night.

Reports said Jameela Bibi slapped her son Rashid over some domestic issue. In disappointment, Rashid took poisonous pills. His mother also swallowed pills when she came to know about it. They were shifted to hospital in critical condition where Jameela Bibi died while doctors succeeded in saving the life of her son.

BLOCKADE: Students of a private medical college blocked traffic in Jinnah Colony in protest against the failure of the college administration in affiliating it with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council here on Monday.

The protesting students, who also damaged furniture and fixture of their college, claimed they had been protesting with their institution’s administration for the last couple of months.

They said that they were enrolled as medical students but the management failed to get them enlisted for the current year’s examinations. Receiving information, police teams rushed to the spot and assured students that their demands would be communicated to high-ups.