KASUR: Showing distrust in police investigation into a murder case, scores of villagers took to the streets on Wednesday in Allahabad area.

The protesters, including women, blocked the Dipalpur Road near Bhakoki village by burning tyres, raised slogans against the police and demanded justice.

Some two months back, four suspects nominated in a first information report shot dead Sajjad Dogar in broad daylight to settle an old score.

The suspects are currently in the judicial lockup.

The family of the deceased alleged that the Allahabad police changed the weapon ofmurder in terms of bore to give the accused the benefit of the doubt.

The protesters also alleged that police had been given bribe to dent the prosecution case by changing the weapon of murder and consequently the nature of wounds that caused the death of Dogar.

Mother of the victim, Sakina Bibi, said a couple of weeks before the incident, her son Sajjad had submitted an application to the local police that the suspects (later nominated in the FIR) wanted to kill him but police failed to protect him.

Later, on the assurance of police (against whom they were protesting) that justice would be done, the protesters dispersed.

In a later development,Station House Officer Nasarullah Bhatti told the media that District Police Officer Imran Karamat had formed a team to probe the allegations and complete the investigations.

BURNT ALIVE: A man was burnt alive due to a fire that erupted at a cattie pen apparently owing to a cigarette on Wednesday at Attari Karam Singh village in Saddar Chunian police precincts.

Abdul Rasheed, according to police, slept at his cattle pen on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, his family found him dead with critical burns.

Rasheed was a smoker and his quilt might have caught fire due to a cigarette. Police are looking into the matter.