TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 19: Gojra Tehsil Bar Association members observed a strike on Monday to protest against the demolition of the chamber of former bar secretary-general Anwar Mansoor Goraya by the Tehsil Municipal Administration staff.

A bar meeting was also held where speakers condemned Tehsil Nazim Chaudhry Khalid Javed for allegedly demolishing the chamber in the name of so-called anti-encroachment campaign. They alleged that the tehsil Nazim only wanted to take revenge of the resolution which was passed by the bar a few days ago.

They said the TMA staff violated court stay order and if the police had not restrained them, the TMA staff would have razed all chambers. The meeting, which was presided by bar president Chaudhry Shafiq Akram Gujjar, decided that bar members would daily observe two-hour strike against tehsil nazim's attitude.

It also formed a six-member committee consisting of bar president, secretary and four lawyers to meet the DPO, district nazim and DCO to apprise them of the excesses of the Gojra TMA.

Meanwhile, a TMA official claimed that the stay order was meant to restrict the demolition of chambers having an area of 10-by-10 feet. He said that some lawyers had built the chambers on encroached TMA land due to which the main water supply line of the TMA could be damaged. A police party remained present on court premises to stop the TMA staff in case they attempted to raze the chambers again.

SNATCHED: Armed robbers drove away with a tractor-trolley loaded with more than 500 tins of ghee worth Rs1.2 million on Sunday night near Gojra.

Driver Rehmat Ali was carrying ghee from Faisalabad to Gojra by tractor-trolley when robbers driving in a car overtook him and intercepted his vehicle near Painsara Road octroi post. The outlaws kidnapped him in their car while one of them drove away with the trolley. Some eight kilometres away from Gojra, they threw Rehmat at a deserted place near Chaudhry Sugar Mills after tying him with ropes and fled.