TOBA TEK SINGH, March 3: A house robbery bid by three women was thwarted by the targeted family here in the Noor Park locality on Thursday.

According to Rescue 1122 personnel, three women took hostage Javed Iqbal's young son Awais when the boy opened the door of his house responding to a knock.

One of the women, pulling a knife on Awais, told him to let her enter the house, while the other two remained outside. As the boy put up resistance, the woman injured him with a knife.

In the meantime, the other family members, noticing something going on unusual at the door, arrived there and sensing gravity of the situation raised an alarm. This made the two women, who were in the street, fled the scene.

However, some locals overpowered the woman trying to enter the house and handed her over to the police. She was later identified as Parveen Akhtar of Shikarpur, Sindh.

A city police official said the arrested woman was being interrogated. DACOITY:

Dacoits looted the house of a farmer at Chak 383-JB Allahar on Wednesday night.

The armed outlaws reportedly forced their entry into the house of Imran Arshad after midnight, overpowered the inmates, gathered gold ornaments worth Rs700,000, three mobile phones and some wristwatches, besides thousands of rupees, and fled the scene.

Sadar police have registered a case. SHO PUNISHED:

An SHO was expelled from the district on Thursday for failing to control crime in his jurisdiction.

District Police Officer Ahsan Younis ordered Gojra Sadar SHO Malik Shahid Husain to report for next posting to Faisalabad police headquarters after he failed to check rising crime incidence in the area.