NAROWAL: A first-year student was killed in an alleged firing incident by Daska police on Sunday. The backdrop of the incident was a cockfight taking place in Goiki village near Daska, Sialkot, when a Motra police team conducted a raid at the venue.

According to an FIR registered at Motra police station on the request of Assistant SubInspector Taugeer Ashraf, the police team was en route to village Goiki to arrest suspects named in an earlier FIR filed at the request of Saddam Hussain.

During their journey, four unidentified people opened fire on the police team near a brick kiln. In the exchange, an unidentified youth was killed, while the other assailants managed to flee.

The deceased was later iden-tified as Abdul Rehman. His father, Imam Muhammad Akbar, a resident of village Kotlibhu, said that his 17-yearold son had gone to watch the cockfight with his friends.

When the police team raided the venue, Rahman and his friends attempted to escape.

The police opened fire, resulting in his son`s immediate death. The police shifted the body to the Daska Tehsil Headquarters. Despite Akbar`s pleas upon reaching the hospital, the police denied him the opportunity to see his son`s body.

Eyewitnesses Abdul Razzaq and Naseer Ahmed said that seven police officials conducted the raid, and the young man died on the spot due to a bullet wound to his neck from police firing. They also mentioned that the police had detained Muhammad Rizwan, a local youth who had fled but was cap-tured by the raiding team. The police allegedly coerced Rizwan to confess to Abdul Rehman`s murder.

A Daska-based journalist reported that an argument erupted between the police and local residents during the raid on the cockfight. In the midst of the altercation, the first-year student succumbed to the police firing. Parents and local residents protested vehemently against the police.

District Police Officer Muhammad Hasan Iqbal said he had formed an inquiry committee, led by SP Investigation Sialkot. The police said they had incorporated the relatives` request into the FIR. The police spokesperson stated that the deceased youth had no prior criminal record. The deceased`s family urged Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi and Inspector General of Police Dr Usman Anwar to paddress the situation.RAPE: The Sialkot police arrestedfour people accused of gang-raping a 13-year-old boy.

A resident of Charwah village in tehsil Pasrur reported to the police that her 13-year-old nephew, a resident of Gazipur Sialkot, was staying as a guest.

On Nov 25, while playing outside the house, he was lured to the fields by four village youths who forcibly tied his hands and raped him.

An FIR was registered against the suspects by the Sabz Peer police. The raiding teams, led by the Pasrur deputy superintendent of police, arrested the four suspects.

RAID: The Agriculture Department conducted a raid on the warehouse of fertilizer dealers in Shakargarh, seizing bags of fake fertilizer worth more than Rs1.12 million.

Following complaints from farmers about shopkeepers and dealers selling substandard andfake fertilizers, Narowal Deputy Commissioner Syed Hasan Raza ordered a districtwide crackdown.

The special magistrate along with officers from the Agriculture Department raided the fertilizer dealer`s warehouse in Shakargarh. They recovered 80 bags of non-standard fake DAP Sona fertilizer.

The agriculture department seized the substandard and fake fertilizer bags, leading to the registration of an FIR against the dealer, Muhammad Rafiq, at Kot Nainan police station for selling fake fertilizer.

During the special crackdown, fines totaling more than Rs1 million were imposed on 51 shopkeepers and wholesale dealers engaged in black marketing, selling fertilizer at prices higher than the prescribed rates.

An FIR was filed against five shopkeepers for hoarding.