TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad Anti-Corruption Court Special Judge Qaiser Nazir Butt handed down 29-year imprisonment to a health department employee for possessing a fake MBBS degree.
The anti-corruption establishment (ACE) had registered a case against convict Aslam Anjum in 2009 on the complaint of a widow, Jamila Akhtar.
The complainant had pointed out that the convict got a job on a fake MBBS degree, which originally was issued to another student with the same name.
She had said that the convict was a student of the Punjab Medical College in 1977 and he had also obtained a Rs2 million student loan from the college. As a student, she said in her complaint, he raped a girl and remained in jail for three years, while his admission in MBBS was cancelled.
The convict was posted as a medical officer in Sargodha on the basis of his fake degree, while healso remained posted as the head of the gynaecology ward at the Faisalabad Allied Hospital.
He was posted as a medical officer at the Faisalabad district jail. When a prisoner died in the jail due to the treatment administered by him, IG jails suspended the convict and the deputy superintendent jail.
The convict had forged his identity card and used the degree of another doctor with the same name. He changed his father’s name from Ahmad Ali to Abdul Hamid for the forgery to match the details ofthe doctor.
The ACE FIR further stated that the convict also gave a bribe of Rs5,000 per month to a Punjab Medical College clerk for years to avoid verification of his fake MBBS degree.
ACCIDENT: A woman and her grandson were killed and her husband was critically injured after a speeding tractor trolley collided head-on with their motorcycle near Chak 369 JB, Gojra on Saturday.
The deceased were identified as Shamim Bibi (60) and her grandsonas Taha Muhammad (7), while the injured was identified as Shafiq (65). They were on their way from Gojra to their home in Chak 244 GB.
The injured man was shifted to the Gojra THQ Hospital for treatment, where doctors referred him to the Allied Hospital.
In another incident, an unknown vehicle crushed to death one Ghulam Qasim (70) of Chak 415 JB Chandarkay when he was crossing the road near Nawan Lahore on the Faisalabad-Jhang Road in Gojra tehsil.
MURDER: A real estate developer was killed over a dispute in Gojra.
Police said deceased Abdullah Tanweer went to the outhouse of accused Noman Jat near Albarkat high school to reconcile a dispute between his friend and the accused.
During discussion, harsh words were exchanged between the accused and the deceased and the accused allegedly opened fire on him. He was shifted to the Gojra T HQ Hospital where he succumbe d to his injuries.