BAHAWALPUR City News

Boy kidnapped, molested, tortured in Bahawalpur
From Our Correspondent
BAHAWALPUR: A 17-year-old Hafiz-e-Quran boy Muhammad Shabbir was kidnapped, molested and tortured allegedly by his former brother-in-law Abdul Ghaffar and his two accomplices.
The kidnappers shaved off his beard and burnt the body with cigarettes. Saddar police station registered an FIR against the nominated culprits, though no arrests were made thus far.
Victim’s father, Qari Abdul Waheed, a resident of Rehmat Colony, Bahawalpur, told The News no action had been taken against the culprits thus far. He and his victim son appealed to the Punjab chief minister, IG Punjab police that the culprits should immediately be arrested and justice should be provided to them.
He said the accused, Abdul Ghaffar, had divorced his daughter and yet he had been hatching conspiracies against his family.

Anti-encroachment drive in Chishtian
A Chishtian tehsil municipal committee team, led by the assistant commissioner, who is also the TMA administrator, launched an operation against encroachments on Qazi Wala Road on Friday.
These encroachers have been there for the last six, seven decades. Now the residents are claiming ownership of these lands with the help of patwaris and other revenue department functionaries.
Some locals alleged that anti-encroachment action was being taken only against the poor people and the influential people were being spared. They demanded an even-handed operation against all encroachers.