MUZAFFARGARH, April 18: Following the violent protest by the workers of a construction company at the site of Taunsa Barrage Rehabilitation and Modernisation Project, Frontier Constabulary and intelligence agency personnel have been deployed there, sources told Dawn on Wednesday.

They said up to 13 FC personnel and 25 agency officials had been deployed at the barrage which is being rehabilitated at a cost of Rs11 billion.

On April 8, workers of Descon, the construction company handling the project, had resorted to road blockade and violence, thrashing officials and setting fire to their offices to protest delay in payment of salaries.

The workers had alleged they were protesting peacefully when Descon administration manager Chaudhry Manzoor used abusive language and refused to hold talks with them, resulting in law and order situation. Later, on the report of Mr Manzoor, Daira Din Panah police had registered a case against 26 workers.

Talking to Dawn on Wedneday, a company spokesman claimed the delay in the payment of salaries was caused because banks in kotaddu were having problem in arranging Rs10 million, the amount to be paid to the workers.

He claimed the company had never delayed payment of workers’ salaries. The administration manager concerned had also been removed, he added.

BODY RECOVERED: The police claimed on Wednesday to have solved a murder mystery and exhumed the body of a teenager who had gone missing from his home on March 30.

Police said Nasir Nawaz approached the police on April 1 to report that his brother Kamran, 15, went to his friend Rafiq’s house to watch a movie but did not return. The police took into custody Rafiq and Kamran, another friend, who confessed to killing the visitor. They claimed while watching the movie, they tried to sodomise Kamran and on his resistance killed him and buried him in fields.

Police got the body exhumed and handed it over to the heirs after conducting post-mortem. — Correspondent