TOBA TEK SINGH: The Arrouti police of Pirmahal booked 105 shopkeepers on Saturday for attacking officials and damaging the vehicle of the Pirmahal assistant commissioner during an anti-encroachment drive in Sindhillanwali Town.

Tehsildar Imran Abbas claimed in his complaint that during an operation led by the Pirmahal AC, accused Rana Mustansar Riaz, his 14 nominated and 90 other accomplices armed with steel bars, axes and sticks attacked the PunjabEnforcement and Regulatory Authority (Pera) team.

He alleged that the men ransacked the official vehicle of the AC and an excavator. He alleged that they pelted stones on officials and blocked traffic on the Pirmahal Road.

Police were conducting raids to arrest the accused shopkeepers.

Meanwhile, Toba Tek Singh Markazi Anjuman Tajiran Senior Vice President Rana Khalid Mahmood condemned the case against the shopkeepers, including Anjuman TajiranPresident Rana Mustansir Riaz, by the district administration.

In a statement, he claimed that the case was completely baseless, an act of revenge and a form of oppression. He demanded immediate withdrawal of the case and the release of the `innocent` shopkeepers.

He said the shopkeepers belonged to the flood affected villages and were living in desperate conditions after bearing losses. He said that at such a time, these actions were rubbing salt on their wounds. Heannounced that traders would raise their voice against this injustice and would take to the streets.

MURDER: A man allegedly murdered his wife and father and critically injured his daughter in Chak 50-JB, Boorraywal, at Faisalabad in the wee hours of Friday.

Complainant Liaqat Ali of Shahkot, Nankana Sahib claimed, in the FIR registered by the Nishatabad police, that his son-in-law accused Sajjad Jat suspected his wife Shazia Bibi(40) of having loose morals. He claimedthat after an altercation with her, he fired on her.

He said when the father of the accused, Ghulam Fareed (60) and his daughter Tayyaba (14) attempted to stop him, he also allegedly shot both of them.

Later, Shazia Bibi and Ghulam Fareed succumbed to their injuries, while Tayyaba was shifted to the Allied Hospital in a critical condition.

Police were conducting raids to arrest the accused, who managed to flee after the murders.

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