CHINIOT: Police have booked a fertiliser dealer of Bhowana town for allegedly blocking a road and threatening to kill a traffic warden on Wednesday.

As per the first information report (FIR), trader Sheikh Riaz was getting unloaded fertilisers from a truck that was parked on the road and obstructing the traffic flow, causing a jam.

The FIR said when Senior Warden Aman Ullah asked Mr Riaz to get the truck parked on the roadside to ease the traffic flow, the trader allegedly got enraged, used rough language and ordered the truck driver to crush the warden and other officials under the vehicle, if they try to remove the truck.However, the traffic warden impounded the truck and handed it over to Bhowana police, along with the drive. The police registered a case, under sections 290, 291, 186 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), on the complaint Mr Amanullah.

On the other hand, Mr Riaz, talking to the media, alleged that Warden Amanullah came to his shop and demanded 25 bags of fertiliser on credit. The dealer said that on his refusal to give fertiliser on credit, the warden `implicated him in a fabricated and false case`.

He alleged that scores of truck loaded with sand, cement, stone crush and other construction material entered the city daily after bribing the traffic police.

He claimed that Amanullah had already got fertilisers worth Rs600,000 from him on credit in2021, but did not pay the amount so far.

He also showed a CCTV footage to the media persons, in which the traffic warden could be seen arriving at Riaz`s shop on his official vehicle. In the footage, no truck could be seen parked on the road, hindering traffic flow.

Meanwhile, local fertiliser dealers protested the registration of a `false case` against their fellow trader and demanded the chief minister to take notice of the `high-handedness` of police.

They also sought quashing of the FIR against Mr Riaz, threatening to go on shutter-down strike and staging protest on the roads, if their demand was not accepted.

District Police Officer (DPO) Imran Ahmad Malik said he has directed DSP concerned to conduct an inquiry into the matter.