TOBA TEK SINGH: Two robbery suspects were killed in an encounter with the Faisalabad police on Friday near Graveyard Chowk on Tullianwala Road in the Razaabad police area.

The police said they stopped four people riding two motorcycles, but they opened indiscriminate fire on them, which was also retaliated against. When the gunfire stopped, the police found two motorcyclists injured at the scene. They were rushed to Ghulam Muhammadabad hospital where they succumbed to their wounds, while their accomplices fled.

The police claimed that both the deceased received the bullets fired by their accomplices.

The suspects had looted Rs15,000 and a mobile phonefrom Abid Ali of Ghulam Muhammadabad a few minutes before the exchange of fire with the police.

Both deceased individuals could not be identified till the filing of this report.

The suspects had shot and injured ASI Adil Gulfam on Jhang Road on Thursday night.

The police were conducting raids to arrest their accomplices.

DRIVE: Faisalabad Deputy Commissioner Ali Annan Qamar says an anti-encroachment plan is on the cards, under which illegal parking at Clock Tower Chowk and adjacent markets will be eliminated.

Shopkeepers of Kutchery Bazaar have been allocated a space adjacent to the under-construction parking plaza outside Chiniot Bazaar. The plaza will accommodate 4,250 motorcy-cles, for which the parking company is issuing parking cards to shopkeepers. The shopkeepers with the card will park their bikes at the plaza, while the buyers will be allowed to park their vehicles in the market for a spe cified time.

He said the municipal corporation had been directed to adopt a zero-tolerance policy against encroachments, and the campaign would start from Kutchery Bazaar.

INJURED: A meat seller injured a lawyer in Gojra on Friday.

According to the Gojra City police, Muhammad Abdullah and lawyer Suhaib Asghar Goraya quarrelled with each other when the lawyer parked his car in front of the meat shop on Quaid-i-Azam Road. As a result, the suspect shot and injured the lawyer.He was rushed to the Gojra THQ Hospital, where doctors referred him to the Faisalabad`s Allied Hospital.

The police have arrested the accused.

CASE: The Bachiana police in Faisalabad registered a case against nine relatives of a widow on Friday for forcibly contracting nikah with one of the accused persons.

After the nikah, the accused attempted to rape her. The complainant from Chak 588-GB said her late husband`s relatives forced their entry into her house late on April 23 and coerced her into contracting nikah with one of the intruders.

The village`s nikah registrar forcibly obtained her signatures and thumb impression on the nikahnama as directed by them.

She alleged in her FIR thatthey locked her up, and the socalled husband attempted to rape her. Upon raising an alarm, her brother-in-law and cousin rescued her.

The police have arrested two of the suspects.

DIES: A child who had fallen from the roof of his house in Gojra`s Habib Park locality on Thursday succumbed to his injuries at Allied Hospital on Friday.

Muhammad Nadim fell and, as a result, was critically wounded.

Doctors at the Gojra THQ Hospital referred him to the Allied Hospital. However, the police claimed in a press release that the child was playing on the roof when he received an electric shock after his hand suddenly touched an electric wire, causing him to fall into the street.