GUJRANWALA, July 28: Two youths, including a cable network owner, were shot dead and another was injured by three proclaimed offenders for not paying forced (Jagga) tax at Said Park, Dhulley, on Friday.
Zaigham Sohail, the owner of cable network, was sitting in his office along with his employee Navid and Arif when Zafar Butt of Goperawala and his two accomplices came there on a motorcycle. They opened fire on them and escaped after killing Zaigham and Navid and injuring Arif. The injured man was hastened to the DHQ hospital in critical condition.
Police said the accused had been demanding Rs500,000 from Zaigham for the last one month and threatening him with dire consequences.
Garjakh police removed the bodies to hospital for autopsy and registered a case against them. No arrest has so far been reported.
PRIVATE CELL: The Civil Lines SHO on Friday recovered two brothers from a private torture cell of his three subordinate assistant sub-inspectors and registered a case against them on the direction of the district and sessions judge.
ASIs Javid Akhter, Naseer Ahmad and Sakhawat Naz raided on July 22 the house of Ahmad Hassan at Baghwala locality along with three other constables and arrested his sons Shehbaz Hassan and Shoaib Hassan. They detained the brothers at a textile mills in Chan-da-Qila and demanded bribe for their release.
Ahmad Hassan recorded ASI Javid’s phone talk and approached the sessions court. D&SJ Mazhar Hussain Minhas, after listening the recording, called SHO Ramazan Kamboh and directed him to recover and present the detainees before him.
After the recovery of Shehbaz and Shoaib, the court directed the SHO to registered a case against the six policemen besides recommending departmental proceedings against them.
KIDNAP: Police have failed to trace a union council nazim who was kidnapped along with his driver about a month ago.
People’s Colony union council nazim Liaquat Mehr was returning home after attending Aroop town meeting along with his driver Karamat Gujjar when unidentified people kidnapped them. However, police recovered the vehicle from Pindi Bhattian two days later.
Police got record of the mobile phone of the nazim from the company and found telephone numbers of his friends, including suspect Imran. They took him into custody. Later, they arrested two young girls and were interrogating them.
Meanwhile, Salamat, the son of driver Karamat, told police that one Mazhar Gujrati of Sargodha got Rs700,000 from his father for sending him abroad a few years go. But he neither sent him abroad nor returned the money. He was intimidating his father when he demanded the money back.
SEALED: The district quality control board sealed 15 drug shops for three months on the charge of selling medicines without any licenses on the recommendation of drug inspectors on Friday.
The drug inspectors checked shops in Wazirabad, Kamoki and Gujranwala besides other cities and found them running without any license.
The DCO ordered sealing of these shops for three months and ordered the inspectors to send their cases to drug court.