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Accused gets bail in student`s assault case

By Our Correspondent 2022-08-26
TOBA TEK SINGH: Additional District and Sessions Judge Haider Ali Arif on Thursday granted bail till Sept 3 to one of the accused persons in the student`s assault case.

Anna Ali, the daughter of prime accused Sheikh Danish Ali, claimed in her bail application that her real mother Zara Sarfraz had filed a dissolution of marriage suit in an Islamabad court against her father and she (petitioner) was not in Faisalabad on the day of abduction and torture of the student.

She also denied in her bail application that she was just 16 years of age and a student of O-level and that she was a class fellow of the victim. She added in her bail plea that both cases registered by Faisalabad`s women police station against her as a suspect in the abduction and torture case and the other registered by the FIA cyber crime wing for making a video of the incidentviral were baseless as she was with her mother that day in Islamabad. She said she visits Faisalabad only to see her brother. The court granted her ball in bothcases tillSept3.

A contingent of police was deployed outside court when the petitioner appeared for her bail application.

KIDNAP: A man and his three accomplices allegedly kidnapped an 18-year-old girl at Gojra`s Chak 428 JB on Thursday.

Complainant Muhammad Bilal claimed in his FIR registered under section 365 of PPC that Illyas, a resident of Chak 420 JB, and his three accomplicescame to his house by a car when he and his wife were not at home. They locked his minor son in a room and took away his daughter Asima, 18, he said.

The Gojra Saddar police conducted raids to arrest the suspects.

MEDICAL CAMP: A one-day free medical camp is being set up at the government city hospital on Saturday.A press release issued on Thursday by Hepatitis and Infection Control Programme district focal person Dr Muhammad Irfan Rashid said that under the supervision of Medical Superintendent Dr Waseem Hayat, screening of hepatitis B and C and vaccination against hepatitis B would be done at the camp.

It added that in case any patient was detected as hepatitis C positive during screening, his blood sample would be sent for PCR testtoanyreputedgovernment laboratory and after that he would be treated on health department expenditure.