LAKKI MARWAT: Local administration on wednesday tightened noose against the transporters for not implementing the fare list issued by the regional transport authority (RTA) after reduction in oil prices.

The local residents had lodged complaints with the administration stating that the public transporters were fleecing them as they didn`t implement the freshly issued fare list.

A team headed by Lakki Marwat additional assistant commissioner Mohammad Yaqoob Khan Barki along with RTA officials and police personnel arrested 30 drivers of passenger coaches and impounded their vehicles.

Lakki deputy commissioner Ihsanullah Khan had ordered action against the violators of official fare list. The arrested drivers were found involved in overcharging commuters besides installing extra seats in theirvehicles.

The deputy commissioner told Dawn that implementation of the new fare list would be ensured at all costs.

PROMOTION SOUGHT: The secondary schoolteachers (SSTs) have demanded their promotion to the posts of subject specialists. They urged the elementary and secondary education department to update their seniority list and include in it names of teachers recruited after 2005.

The demand was made at a meeting in Serai Gambila on Wednesday.

The teachers` leaders said that the seniority list of secondary schoolteachers had not been updated since long. They disclosed that the teachers who had been appointed or promoted as SSTs before 2005 had their names and details of their credentials in the seniority list, but those recruited after 2005 had not been included in it.BOOKED: A police constable and his two accomplices were booked in a robbery case, said an official on Wednesday. The official said that the three were booked in Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan police station of Darra Pezu town for depriving three bike riders of cash and mobile phones.

He said that police on the complaint of one Abdullah registered case against constable, Mohammad Fayyaz, and his accomplices, Safiullah and Ejaz under relevant sections of law.

Abdullah told police that he along with his cousins, Furqanullah and Khalid Osman, residents of Chuharkhel, was returning from Bilandkhel village when three armed men snatched cash and mobile phones from them during night near Chuharkhel village. He said that the masked bandits also beat them up. Correspondent