OKARA: A man was allegedly thrashed and killed by a raiding police team in Lalewala village near Hujra Shah Mubeen.

According to a first information report, late on Sunday SI Ali Husnain Shah with four other police officials entered the cattle pen of Hanif, 40, who was asleep there.

The police forcibly picked him up and thrashed him.

Later, seeing his condition getting deteriorate, the police pushed him out on the road and fled.

Several locals gathered at the scene and later, with the family members of the deceased, they blocked Hujra-Kasur Road. The Hujra police station registered a case against SI Husnain and four unidentified suspects.

LHVs: More than 100 lady health visitors ( L HV)held a sit-in on the office lawns of the district health authority on Monday.

Their leader, Najma Naheed, told Dawn that LHVs were recruited some 30 years ago on scale nine and since then they had been serving on the same scale.

The basic qualification for an LHV has been raised to FSc from matriculation but without any change in their pay scale.

She said Chief Executive Of ficer-Health Dr Mahar Akhtar Baloch received their charter of demands and assured them that their demands with a covering letter would be forwarded to the secretary to specialised health, director general health and nursing director general in Lahore.

She said LHVs were protesting across the province and had made a plan to hold a protest rally on Aug 18 in front of the Punjab Assembly if their demands were not met by the authorities.Correspondent