MULTAN, April 18: Tension prevailed at the Army Stud Farm in Pakpattan on the second consecutive day on Tuesday, as tenant families refused to put off the sit-in until release of the detained tenants.

Scores of women and children had been staging a sit-in at the Bail Ganj village since Monday and a police contingent is said to be cordoning off the area to avert any untoward situation.

However, tenants alleged that the police were not allowing any one to come to Bail Ganj and, thus, an acute shortage of the goods of daily use had been created. They said the protesters were sitting for the last 40 hours without food.

On the other hand, the police produced all the arrested tenants of the stud farm before a court and obtained their physical remand.

Pakpattan DSP Anwar Chishti said the physical remand was sought because the police had to recover losses from the tenants for the damage they had caused to public and private property on Monday while protesting against the farm management.

The tenants, however, denied the police claim and said they were being victimised only because they were demanding ownership rights against the lands they had been cultivating for over a century.

It may be added here that the Pakpattan police had detained around 30 tenants of the Army Stud Farm, who were participating in a protest against their ejection from the lands of their tenancies.

OKARA: Anjuman-i-Mazareen Punjab information secretary David Masih has accused the Pakpattan district police officer of arresting 15 tenants of the military farms. Another 50 tenants (men and women) were arrested while protesting on road against the unjustified arrest of their colleagues.

He said these tenants were in fact called out by the DPO for dialogues over the wheat harvesting issue.