TOBA TEK SINGH: Kamalia Judicial Magistrate Abid Islam Kurriana acquitted on Saturday a local businessman who was booked in a case for stealing electricity through a direct connection from the main transmission line.

According to the FIR registered with Saddar police on Oct 15 in 2013, a team of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) had recovered a transformer and the distribution system from the accused, Muhammad Sarwar.

The report alleged that Sarwar was supplying electricity to his industrial compound where was running a poultry feed factory, a hatchery, five poultry sheds, two tubewells of a fish farm, a cold storage and several houses in the compound through stolen electricity. Sarwar had taken a plea before the court that he was an overseas Pakistani who was running his business with honesty and the Fesco officials had taken revenge on him as he had refused to oblige them with money.

ELECTROCUTED: A woman was electrocuted at Pirmahal on Saturday.

Police said Shahnaz Bibi of Shadman Colony was sweeping the floor of her house when she touched an electricity wire. She received a shock and died on the spot. She was a mother of two children.

FIRE: Cloth worth millions of rupees was gutted when a shop caught fire due to a short circuit at Gojra.

Ameer Husain of Sarafa Bazaar said the fire broke out in the upper story but it spread to the entire shop within minutes and reduced the cloth to ashes.

In another incident, a fire damaged a house at Kamalia.

Sardar Abdul Aziz Dogar of Fazil Dewan locality said the valuables in his house worth Rs1m were burnt in the fire. Municipal Committee rescuers controlled the fire. Correspondent