TOBA TEK SINGH: The Pirmahal police arrested on Wednesday a 45-year-old groom, his 11-year-old bride, her father and her stepmother and foiled an underage marriage in C-Plot locality, Bilal Colony.

Police said the area people informed them about the illegal wedding ceremony and SHO Abdul Razzaq conducte d a raid and arrested all the four accused.

Accused Muhammad Husain had contracted nikkah of his daughter, Iqra Bibi, with 45-year-old disabled accused Shaulcat Ali of Chak 327-GB on Sept 22, 2015.

Nikkah khawan Mujahid Iqbal, the prayer leader of Bilal Mosque of the same locality, and nikkah registrar Muhammad Arif had mentioned the age of Shaukat in the nik-kahnama as 30 years and that of bride Iqra as 18 years.

Police are conducting raids to arrest the accused nikkah khawan and the nikkah registrar.

PAY SCALE: Scores of Punjab community development department`s secretaries, who were recruited for union councils under Pervez Musharraf`s devolution plan, have demanded of the government to revise their pay scales.

The secretaries from four districts -Vehari, Toba, Jhang and Faisalabad -held a convention to form their organisation which will be extended to all districts.

Addressing the convention at Pirmahal on Wednesday, newlyelected organiser Rana Mahboob Ahmad of Vehari said when scales of the clerical staff were revised in Punjab, they should also have been promoted to scale 11 from scale 7like the other clerical staff.

He said they had been regularised in 2009 and 30 per cent amount from their salaries was being deducted since their regularisation, but they did not know in which account this amount was being deposited.

He also criticised the Apca leadership for keeping a mum over this excess being done by the Punjab government with union council secretaries.

Mr Ahmed said the election of office bearers of the All Punjab Secretaries Association would be held after forming its organisation in all districts.

He threatened to launch a protest demonstration outside the chief minister`s house in Lahore if their scales were not upgraded.

Sajjad Qaiser Danish of Faisalabad, Fakhar Shehzad of Jhang, Mehdi Hasan of Vehari and Raja Jalil Ahmad of Toba also spoke.