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Stolen railway material worth millions recovered

TOBA TEK SINGH: The Railway Police on Monday took action against theft of railway material and recovered seven tonnes of track pieces worth millions of rupees and nine electricpoles of 36 feet length.

An official said police raided near Abdul Hakim Railway Station in Khanewal district and arrested two scrap dealers, Jamshed and Mudassar, who were loading stolen railway material in a truck.

Police seized the materialand registered a case against both arrested suspects with the Railway Police Khanewal. The suspects revealed that they had purchased the material from one Soni Daulatana.

ACCIDENT: Five people were injured when a speeding bus hit two motorcycles on AddaNoor Shah Pul on the Sultan Bahu Road in Ahmedpur Sial tehsil of Jhang.

According to Rescue 1122, all of the wounded were shifted to Ahmedpur Sial THQ Hospital.

They included 42-yearold Farhan Khan, 65-year-old Barkat Ali, 30-year-old Muhammad Riaz, six-year-old Sakina Fatima and five-year-old Meesam Raza.

FRAUD: A Faisalabad FIA team arrested the former manager of a Sargodha Road branch of a public sector bank on the charges of embezzlement and fraud of Rs14m.Investigating officer Muhammad Bashir Khan said Kashif Shahzad was arrested after an inquiry found him guilty.

The suspect is facing charges of receiving illegal money from the citizens, using fake documents, and altering bank accounts.

D R O W N I N G : Unidentified motorcyclists pushed a woman into Jhang Branch Canal and killed her by drowning near Chak 467-JB, Chak Jhumra tehsil.

Complainant Rizwan claimed in his FIR registered with Sahianwala police that his sister, Shahnaz Bibi (42), waswalking along with her daughter, Aliyah, and cousin, Najma, when three bike riders came and startedtorturingher.

When both other women tried to rescue her, they tortured them also. They pushed Shahnaz into the canal who drowned instantly.

ARREST: A proclaimed offender in a double murder case has been arrested by Dijkot police of Faisalabad two years after the incident.

Police said on July 4, 2024, Muhammad Ilyas had shot dead two farmers and injured as many over irrigation water dispute at Chak 277-RBSeetlan and went underground. When police came to know that he had returned home to see his parents, they raided and arreste d him.

In another incident, Millat Town police in Faisalabad recovered a girl in a raid from Gujranwala who was kidnapped on June 4 from Ghaziabad locality.

Police officials said they traced the whereabouts of kidnapper, Yasir, who had abducted Iram Shahzadi in connivance with his six accomplices when she was going to a medical store to buy medicine. Police arrested Yasir.