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11 booked under ATA for burning car showroom

By Our Correspondent 2022-08-30
TOBA TEK SINGH: Abdul Hakim police in Khanewal registered on Monday a case under terrorism charges against 11 men for injuring a worker, burning 11 cars and damaging five others in an attack on a car showroom on Kacha Khoh bypass road at Abdul Hakim on Sunday night.

The showroom owner, Shakil Mughal, claimed in the first information report registered with Abdul Hakim City police under sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) that he was also a correspondent of an Urdu newspaper and he had published news after the Tulamba police nabbed an inter-district drug peddlers gang, led by one Noor Muhammad. To take revenge from him, Mughal alleged, Noor Muhammad and his 10 unidentified accomplices attacked his showroom, opened indiscriminate fire and injured an employee, Rana Zeeshan Shami.

He said Shami was in serious condition at the Nishter Hospital, Multanand added that the suspects had sprayed the cars with petrol and set them on fire.

REMAND: Faisalabad judicial magistrate Bilal Hassan issued judicial remand till Sept 3 for the four accused in BDS student torture case after the Faisalabad women police produced them in court after their earlier remand ended on Monday.

The accused were sent to the district jail. They accused included Sheikh Danish Ali`s gunmen Faizan, Mustafa, Tayyab and Asghar.

SHOT DEAD: Robbers shot a milkman dead during robbery at Chak 241/ RB of Faisalabad.

In the FIR registered with in the Thikriwala Police Station, Ramzan of Chak 251/RB said he and his brother, Sultan, were transporting milk on motorcycle to Faisalabad when two robbers intercepted them at gunpoint.

On offering resistance, they shot at and injured Sultan who died instantly and snatched cash of Rs10,000.

CPO Umar Saeed Malik visited the house of the deceased and assured the family of justice.