TOBA TEK SINGH: A man died after being poisoned allegedly by his wife and brother in the Faisal Town locality of Kamalia on Wednesday. According to the FIR registered by the Kamalia City police, Abdul Rashid’s wife Sadia Bibi had relations with her brotherin-law, Abdul Waheed, and they decided to kill Rashid (42), a Fesco employee, and marry each other.
They mixed poison in Rashid’s meal and disappeared from the home taking with them gold ornaments, cash and other valuablesworth Rs2 million.
Police were conducting raids to arrestbothaccused.
ACCIDENT: A bus conductor died after falling from the roof of a running bus near the Khanewal district court complex on Wednesday.
According to Rescue 1122, Muhammad Umar (45) of Toba Tek Singh had climbed up to the roof to get fare from passengers who were travelling on the roof. They said that he slipped and fell on the road and died instantly.
PATWARI ARRESTED: A Jhang anti-corruption establishment (ACE) team arrested a patwari on charges of bribery and also recov-ered marked currency from the accused on Wednesday.
According to ACE officials, one Aamir Shahzad, a resident of Rao Colony on Toba Road in Jhang, had complained that Patwari Umair Siddique had allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs10,000 for preparing a favourable report regarding his irrigation water channel. On the complaint, a team led by ACE Circle Officer Muhammad Akhtar Saeed, under the supervision of Judicial Magistrate Shorkot Shahroz Shaheen Ranjha conducted a sting operation and recovered marked money from the patwari.
A case has been registered againstthe accused.