TOBA TEK SINGH: Three persons were allegedly murdered in Jaranwala tehsil of Faisalabad on Friday over an old enmity.
According to the Satiana police, all three victims, identified as Muhammad Javed (42), Waqas Naeem (30) and Ali Muhammad (30) of Chak 592 GB of Tandlianwala tehsil, were returning from a Tandlianwala court after appearing in a murder case.
Police claimed that when they reached Chak 231 GB Tiwana, located on the Satiana-Jhaamra Road, their opponents Shahadat Hussain and his accomplices allegedly opened indiscriminate fire on them.
As a result, they were critically injured and two of them, Javed and Waqas, died instantly, while Ali Muhammad was shifted to the Satiana RHC where he too succumbed to his wounds.
Police claimed the suspects managed to flee after the ambush and the Satiana police were conducting raids to arrest them.
Faisalabad CPO Tanveer Hussain has formed a police team led by the Jaranwala SP to arrest the suspects.
ENCOUNTER: An alleged rob-ber-cum-murderer was killed on Thursday night in an encounter with the police in Qataalpur area of Kabirwala, Khanewal.
According to the police, a Sarai Siddhu police team led by SHO Rao Shahid Ali was on patrol near Mouza Berbaigi when they stopped three suspects riding a motorcycle. However, police claimed that they opened fire on the policemen.
After an exchange, police claimed to have found one suspect injured by the firing of his accomplices, who later died on the spot. He was identified as Ghulam Murtaza alias Mithu of Kund Sargana. He allegedly shot dead one Malik Nasir Abbas Insari a few days ago over resistance during a dacoity in his house.
Separately, an alleged interprovince narcotic smuggler was killed in an encounter with a CCD team on Thursday night in Faisalabad’s Chak Jhumra tehsil near Chak 113 JB Phalaiwala on the Sargodha Bypass Road.
Police sources claimed that a CCD Madina Town team led by In-charge Syed Iram Raza Shah and SHO Farooq Nazir confronted three suspects riding a motorcycle.
Police claimed that they fired on the team and policemen retaliated in self defence. When the firingstopped, police claim to have found one suspect dead by the firing of his accomplices, who had escaped away.
He was identified as Shahid Sardar of Chak 203 RB and was wanted in dozens of narcotic cases registered against him in different districts for selling drugs which he smuggled from KP and Balochistan.
In the third encounter with the CCD near Kamalabad, a man wanted for the murder of his own wife and kidnapping for ransom was killed.
Police claimed that a CCD joint team of Lyallpur Town led by In-charge Siddiq Cheema and Iqbal Town team led by In-charge Ali Akram Goraya were present when they stopped three suspects riding a motorcycle. Police claimed that the suspects opened fire on the policemen, which was also returned.
After the guns went silent, police claim to have found one suspect dead by the firing of his accomplices. He was identified as Shahid Ashraf.
Police said the deceased had allegedly abducted citizen Sher Khan from Heaven Villas and had murdered him after he failed to get money for ransom, while he had also shot dead his wife.