TOBA TEK SINGH: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) claimed on Friday to have arrested an agriculture department extra assistant director for misappropriation of funds worth Rs1.75 million.
According to the FIR, registered against Shakil Arshad, he had been proven guilty in the initial investigation, over which an ACE team led by Circle Officer Muhammad Saeed Farooq raidedhisofficeinPirmahal and took him into custody.
Meanwhile, a Toba Tek Singh district educationoffice clerk has also been arrested for allegedly taking a bribe.
An ACE official claimed that Junior Clerk Akmal Hussain received Rs450,000 from Nasreen for obtaining a government school contract under the outsourcing scheme of the education department. He had allegedly promised to give her the contract to run the school in exchange for money.
An ACE team led by Circle Officer Saeed Farooq under the supervision of a judicial magistrate raided the education department office and caught the accused red-handed while receiving bribe from thecomplainant.
In another such case, a Faisalabad ACE team led by Assistant Director Imran Abbas arrested a former Jaranwala revenue patwari of Chak 101 GB in a case of tampering with the record of his patwar circle.
According to ACE officials, accused Mushtaq Ahmad Dewana had changed the transfer of inherited farmland of a villager on May 19, 2011, to deprive him of the ownership right of his farmland.
Also in Faisalabad, an ACE team led by Assistant Director Sarfraz Ahmad Warraich arrested a man for preparing a fake power of attorney to grab thehouse of a citizen.
ACE officials claimed that accused Riaz Hussain had put his own thumb impression to show himself as the real owner of the house of one Shabbir Ahmad of Chak 203 RB on March 4, 2024, while appearing before a revenue department sub-registrar.
MINOR’S MURDER SOLVED: The Faisalabad Garh police claimed to have solved the blind murder of a three-year-old girl and her stepfather turned out to be the killer.
Police said that on Sept 9 Zainab Bibi had disappeared from the street while playing and her body was recovered the next dayfrom a sugarcane field.
During investigation, her mother Kiran Bibi said when her daughter went missing, her second husbandGhulamMuhayyddin was also absent from the home.
Police claimed when he was taken into custody, he confessed that he was not willing to keep his stepdaughter with him, so he took her to the fields outside the village and strangled her with her scarf.
PROTEST: Scores of students of a private college blocked traffic on the national highway in Mian Channu, Khanewal, on Friday afternoon after the death of a fellow studentwho had fallen from a bus.
Protesting students claimed that first year student Talal tried to board a bus but the driver sped the vehicle and the conductor pushed him out of the door.
As a result, he fell on the road and was critically injured. He was shifted to the Mian Channu THQ Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
They demanded early arrest of the bus driver and the conductor.
Police officials held negotiations with the protesting students and assured that both accused would be arrested at the earliest over which they ended their protest.