GUJRAT, Feb 4: The staff of the Kharian Tehsil Municipal Administration continued strike on Tuesday to protest against the beating up of their two colleagues by the musclemen of a former Dinga MC chairman.

Zahoor and Mazhar were beaten up by the musclemen of Mian Amjad in the presence of Dinga police on Sunday. Mian Amjad, the brother of ex-MPA Mian Tariq Mahmood and uncle of PML-Q MPA Maria Tariq, had allegedly occupied a piece of land of the Dinga municipality.

On Monday, the TMA staff observed a complete strike and staged a protest rally against the highhandedness of Mian Amjad and the police. They also suspended water supply and switched off streetlights and refused to remove heaps of garbage in Kharian, Dinga and Lalamusa.

The TMA staff alleged on Tuesday that the Dinga police had refused to register a case against the accused and his 200 musclemen. They also alleged that the police did not refer the injured employees to hospital for a medico-legal certificate which the doctors at the emergency refused to issue them without the police report.

They urged the higher authorities to direct the area police to register a case against the accused, besides helping the TMA in removing the illegal construction.

They threatened that they would continue their strike till the acceptance of their demands.

MURDERED: Two persons, including an old woman, were murdered in separate incidents in and around the city during the last 24 hours.

Nazar was shot dead allegedly by Jafar and five accomplices in Majra.

Ilyas stabbed to death his mother-in-law, Rabia Bibi, and injured his wife, Fahmida, over a domestic dispute in Chak Gil, Kunjah.

ARRESTED: The district police claim on Thursday having arrested three criminals — Ghulam Raza, Ashfaq and Ghias — and recovered three Kalashnikovs from their possession.