OKARA, March 12: Police arrested PPP MPA Ashraf Sohna and two traders on Monday on the charge of protesting against the arrest of a trader against whom a case for producing spurious beverages was registered three weeks ago.

According to police, they arrested accused Khalid under sections 188, 148, 149 and MPO 16. The MPA instigated the shopkeepers of Haq Bazaar and Saddar Bazaar to pull the shutters of their shops down and protest against police. They burnt tyres and demanded immediate release of Khalid.

Traders and police had also exchanged hot words and the former raised slogans against police and special judicial magistrate Asif Rauf Khan.

Meanwhile, a contingent of police led by the city DSP rushed to Jamia Muhammadia Chowk where the traders were burning tyres.

OBITUARY: Additional district and sessions judge Rao Saeed Ahmad, 40, a resident of Jabooka village, died of cardiac arrest on Monday morning at his official residence in Sargodha, was buried in his native graveyard in the evening.

A large number of lawyers from Okara and Sargodha and people from all walks of life attended his funeral.

He is survived by a wife, two sons and a daughter.

Qul will be held on Tuesday in his village Jabooka, some 25 kilometres from the city.