BAHAWALPUR: Five police officials have been penalised for alleged corruption, dereliction of duty, poor performance and misconduct in Bahawalpur and Lodhran districts on Friday.
Of them, two officials, one each in Bahawalpur and Lodhran, were arrested for accepting bribes, while three inspectors were placed under suspension for their alleged involvement in political activities in Bahawalpur city.
According to police spokespersons, ASI Ajmal Khand of Bahawalpur Samasatta police and Subinspector Amir Haider Hashmi of Lodhran district police were arrestedfor accepting bribes to the tune of thousands of rupees for giving favours to complainants.
The FIR against SI Hashmi was registered at the Lodhran police station on Friday.
The spokespersons said that the officials had also been placed under suspension by the DPOs after they were arrested by respective district’s anticorruption establishments (ACEs).
Besides, three police officials, including Baghdad-ul-Jadid police SHO Inspector Faisal Amin and Kotwali police SHO Inspector Ahmed Cheema, and Kotwali Senior Inspector Sajjad Ahmed Sindhu were suspended from service by Bahawalpur DPO Rana AbdulWahab.Dawn learnt that they were placed under suspension on the orders of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for their alleged involvement in election activities of the NA-168 by-election.
However, when contacted, Bahawalpur DPO’s SpokespersonMuhammad Ayub Gujjar denied this and said that they had been suspended for failing to fulfil their professional duties, performance and discipline.
Inquiries against them were ongoing, he added.
ACCIDENT: Two persons were killed while three others suffered serious injuries in two separate road accidents in Bahawalpur district on Friday.
In one accident, a minor boy was killed, while threebike riders suffered serious injuries in a collision between the motorcycle and a loader rickshaw at Nabipur near Uch Sharif.
The body of Hassan (6) and the injured including Adnan (14), Ahmed (9) and Abdullah (9) were shifted to the Ahmedpur East THQ hospital, while police reached the scene for investigation.
In another accident, an overspeeding trailer killed a pedestrian, Muhammad Sarwar (50), when he was crossing the Bahawalpur-Ahmedpur East highway near Noorpur Nauranga Pull.
The trailer driver fled from the scene and the Nauranga police registered a case against the unidentified driver. The deceased’s body was handed over to his family.