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53 booked for damaging water supply tanks

By Our Correspondent 2023-01-20
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Arrouti police registered a case on Thursday against 53 people, including 13 nominated, for dismantling an under-construction water supply scheme`s tanks, breaking pipelines and stealing bricks and other construction material from the water supply scheme of Chak 696/36-GB.

Complainant Khurram Shahzad said Tahir Shafiq and his 52 accomplices damaged the water pipelines and stole the material.

The police said an investigation was underway into the incident.

Those nominated in the case have termed the charges levelled againstthem in the FIR baseless.

They said the FIR had not been registered on the complaint of Public Health Department officials or the contractor and the complainant was their opponent who tried to implicate them with fake allegations.

ROAD BLOCKED: Scores of relatives of a murdered man from Samundri blocked traffic on Thursday at Chak 385GB with the body to demand early arrest of the murderers.

When the body of Ghulam Hassan was being shifted to the Samundri THQ hospita for an autopsy, his relatives snatched it and staged a demonstration.

A police officer spoke with protesters and assured them that the kill-ers would be apprehended as soon as possible, so they agreed to let police conduct the autopsy.

Complainant Latifan Bibi said her husband was killed over an old enmity by their rival Gulfam Saghir and his four accomplices on a village street when she and the deceased were going to attend a lunch hosted by a relative.

The police were conductingraidsto arrestthe suspects.

CYBERCRIME: A Multan FIA cybercrime wing team raided on Thursday here in Chuttiana village and arrested Muhammad Amer and Shoaib Ahmad, who allegedly extorted Rs900,000 from Multan people through online fraud.