Traffic plan around animal markets

LAHORE :The City Traffic Police made traffic arrangements in and around the markets of sacrificial animals on Sunday.

Four DSPs, 34 patrol officers, 12 inspectors and 128 traffic wardens will perform duty to regulate the traffic in two shifts. Markets of sacrificial animals will be established in Shahpur Kanjran on Multan Road, Ring Road Lakhodair, Subzimandi Manawan, Punjab Government Employees Cooperative Housing Society Phase II, Block E, Wapda Town Extension A-2 Block College Road, Township, Overseas Pakistani Foundation Housing Society Phase II, Arayan Morr on Raiwind Road, DHA Phase 9 Nishat Mill Hadyara Drain,  Data Gunj Buksh Town and Hazrat Usman Road Main Suggian Road in Ravi Town.

Security: Security in the provincial metropolis was put on high alert to thwart any untoward incident. Additional SPs reviewed the security arrangements and visited churches and sensitive buildings in their respective areas, following the directions of the CCPO. 

The CCPO appealed the citizens to extend their full co-operation to police and immediately inform Rescue 15 or 8330 about any suspicious activity around them. POs arrested: Punjab Highway Patrol (PHP) claimed to have arrested 50 criminals, including 11 proclaimed offenders (POs).

PHP teams also seized 377 litre liquor and 1,130 grams charas, 14 pistols, one gun, one rifle and 40 bullets from the possession of the arrested persons. PHP teams also reunited five children; identified as M Sajid, M Arslan, M Israr, Nadeem and Asad Ullah, with their parents.

Road safety: As many as 24,2251 road safety briefings were conducted and 9,305 booklets pertaining to rash-driving were distributed to the road users by Motorway Police, Central Zone, during the current year.  Similarly, 95,268 road safety booklets and pamphlets about reckless driving were distributed among people in the Okara, Multan and Rahimyar Khan sectors.

bodies found: Three people, unidentified so far, were found dead in various parts of the city on Sunday. A 60-year-old man was found dead in the area of Data Darbar police. A 50-year-old man was found dead in the jurisdiction of Shahdara police and a 20-year-old youth was spotted lying dead in the Shahdara Town police area.  Police claimed that all the three people were addicts who might have died of overdoses of drugs. Police have removed the bodies to morgue.

bid to grab land: The Evacuee Trust Property Board has claimed to have foiled an attempt of grab a piece of land of Gurdwara at Dera Chahal, Lahore. According to a spokesman, ETPB chief Siddiq-ul-Farooq along with other staff on Sunday reached the spot where some grabbers were busy in constructing a wall on the land of the Gurdwara. The grabbers had constructed a wall on 10 kanal out of 39 kanals which was razed on the orders of the chairman. —Correspondent