CHINIOT: Deputy Commissioner Asif Raza organised first `E-open Court` on Facebook for an hour from his office here to receive complaints live against various departments in the district and issued directions to redress them.

The people from allover the district posted some 300 complaints during the live Facebook session, mostly regarding municipal services, health facilities, roads repair, lack of boundary walls of graveyards, parks and streetlights.

There were also complaints about non-provision of death and marriage grants to government employees, traffic mess in the city, high transport fares, LPG cylinders in public vehicles, hanging electricity wiresand illegal rickshaw stands.

`We are being paid salary from the tax paid by the public and are here to serve you,and social media is an active interface to communicate and place the complaints remotely from across the district. All your complaints will remain saved in comments box; will be marked a token number and redressed within 1-5 days if there are no development funds required from Punjab government. The complaints where the development funds wererequired shallbereferred to provincial government for further action,` the DC said in a Facebook message addressing the complainants.

All the heads of line departments, including education, health, revenue, Regional Transport Authority, besides chief officers of Chiniot, Bhowana, Lalian and Chenab Nagar Municipal Committee,and Zila Council were present during the first `E-open Court`.

Assistant commissioners of all tehsils of the district, senior network administrator and other secretarial staff was also present.

The DC directed the officials to note down their complaints and resolve them with intimation to his office so that the complainants might be given response regarding their resolved complaints.

He said the measure would rebuild the trust of public in the administration and the government as envisioned by Punjab chief minister and chief secretary.

DACOITS KILLED: Two alleged dacoits were killed in the firing by their own accomplices during a police encounter, claimed the district police.

According to police, Langrana Station House Officer (SHO) Ijaz Imran waspatrolling in the area last night near Chak 202-JB when he was informed through a wireless call by an Elite Force team in charge Iftekhar Ahmad that four armed men on two motorcycles had run away from a police picket at Chak 197-JB.

On receiving the call, the police team traced and chased the motorcyclists and intercepted them near Chak 204-JB.

The SHO claimed that when the armed motorcyclists were directed to surrender, they opened indiscriminate fire on police team that was retaliated. He said that after exchange ofbrefor around 30 minutes with police, the firing from the criminals` side stopped.

On searching the area, the police found two persons lying injured allegedly in the firing by their own accomplices. They were being rushed to the Bhowana Tehsil HeadquartersHospital when they succumbed to their bullet injuries, the SHO claimed.

The police said the dead suspects were identified as Nadeem Akram, a resident of Chak 199-JB who had a criminal record and was allegedly involved in different cases, including theft, dacoity, vehicle theft, kidnap for ransom, and possession of illegal weapons.

Similarly, he said, the other suspect identified as Arif, a resident of Chak 198-JB, who had been involved in various criminal cases and had also been declared as a proclaimed offender by a Faisalabad court.

Langrana police have booked the dead criminals and their two unknown accomplices under sections 302, 324, 353,186,440 and34 ofthePPC and section 11-b and 13-2-a of the Punjab Arms Amendment Ordinance 2015.