SARGODHA: The Bhagtanwala police have registered a case against the owners of a private housing scheme and their 55 armed accomplices for allegedly torturing women during a land dispute in the Sandoana area. According to the police, a housing scheme owner, Malik Khizar Hayat, alongside his son Malik Farooq and associates Mohsin and Malik Ijaz, allegedly stormed the disputed land using tractor trolleys and cranes.
They were allegedly accompanied by dozens of armed men and they harassed and tortured local women and tore their clothes while firing in the air to terrorise them.
Following the incident, the Bhagtanwala police registered a case, whereas the accused party filed a counter complaint the follow-ing day against the aggrieved women. Further investigations into the matter were underway.
RAPE ATTEMPT: A 19-year-old student reportedly thwarted an attempt to rape her forcing the accused to flee.
According to police sources, the teenage student was going to a vocational college in the New Satellite Town area of Sargodha city when a mischievous youth forcibly grabbed her near the Tahli Chowk bus stop andtookhertoashop.
The sources claimed that she resisted and thwarted the rape attempt after which the accused fled. The Satellite Town police registered a case against the accused on the complaint of the victim’s father and were investigating.
FRONTMAN HELD: TheSargodha anti-corruption establishment (ACE) claimed to have arrested one Saifullah, the alleged frontman of revenue department Patwari Zafar Iqbal, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs80,000 for a property transfer.
According to officials, the raiding team recovered marked currency notes from the suspect’s possession on the spot. Authorities also seized nine volumes of original official records and multiple files showing alleged illegal property transfers made using backdates.
Officials stated that accused Saifullah allegedly collected the bribe on the instructions of Patwari Zafar Iqbal. A case has been registered under the anti-corruption laws, and further investigations are underway. Correspondent