SAHIWAL, April 24: The Civil Lines police have registered a case against 11 people, including a judicial magistrate and Sahiwal sub-registrar, for fraudulently transferring 10 acres of agricultural land in the name of one of the accused.

The land which was fraudulently transferred belonged to Bashir Ahmad, his brother Sanaullah, Inaamullah and sister Bakht Zareen of Chak Ratti Tibbi (88/6-R). Accused Abdul Ghani with the help of Zia Ghani, Advocate Shaikh Shafiq of Lahore, Zaman, Jabbar, Safdar Ali, Siddiq and petition writer Mahram Ali produced a fake power of attorney through bogus identity card in the name of Zaman on December 18, 2000, and got it registered with sub-registrar of Model Town, Lahore.

On April 17, 2001, the accused, on the basis of fake papers, got the land transferred in the name of Jabbar from Sahiwal sub-registrar Rana Shahzad Saeed. Accused Abdul Ghani tried to occupy the land and told the villagers that his son-in-law Jabbar had purchased the land from Bashir, his brothers and sisters.

Bashir got the copies of documents and approached police for the registration of a case. The police refused to oblige him. He moved the Sahiwal district and session judge on whose orders a case was registered against Lahore judicial magistrate Ilyas Akhtar, sub-registrar Rana Shahzad Saeed, lumberdar Shaikh Abdul Aziz, petition writer Mahram Ali and others.

STRIKE: Mepco’s Sahiwal circle staff observed on Thursday a strike against the alleged vagabondism of tehsil Nazim and his 25 men.

They wore black armbands and held a protest meeting which was addressed by Pakistan Hydero-Electric Central Labour Union chairman and vice-chairman. They threatened that they would observe a complete strike and take out protest procession besides sit-in in front of the office of the district Nazim on Friday if the accused were not arrested.

Tehsil Nazim Rana Aamir Shahzad along with 25 people reportedly tried to trespass the premises of Mepco XEN Aurangzeb Siddiqui on Wednesday night when the latter refused to restore power supply to disposal pumps, streetlights and water supplies which was disconnected due to non-payment of bills.