FAISALABAD City News

RPO orders high alert security

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD: In the wake of attack on Bacha Khan University which claimed the lives of 20 innocent students, Regional Police Officer Muhammad Ehsan Tufail has directed CPO Afzal Ahmad Kausar and the DPOs of Chiniot, Jhang and Toba Tek Singh to observe ‘high alert security’ in their respective districts and cancel leaves of all police officials.

In a directive, the RPO has directed the DPOs to also beef up security at private and public schools, colleges and universities running in their respective areas. He asked heads of all educational institutions to also depute their own armed security guards and thoroughly check rooftops at least half an hour before start of classes. He directed the DPOs to ask owners of educational institutions to construct at least 8-ft boundary wall and fix 4-ft barbed wire on the walls.

The RPO has directed the DPOs to personally check increased security arrangements in their areas, depute adequate number of policemen for round-the-clock patrolling duty and arrange police pickets at all entry and exit points of cities to thoroughly check passers-by and vehicles. The police officers found complacent in their security duty would be dealt with strictly, he added. The police officers have also been directed to effectively guard important buildings and places of worship in their respective districts.

 

Eight booked for rape

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD: Eight people were booked in an abduction-cum-gang rape case by Lundianwala police on Wednesday.

Ansar with seven other accomplices abducted ‘K’ from Chak 625/GB and took her to some unknown place where they allegedly raped her. Later, the victim managed to escape and reached her house.

PO DECLARED: A human smuggler was declared proclaimed offender while his wife was fined Rs 10,000 by Special Judge of FIA Court Sohaib Ahmad Romi on Wednesday.

Muhammad Arif and his wife Sumera Arif had extracted Rs 300,000 from their nephew Muhammad Naeem for employment at Muscat. According to a petition filed by Najma Bibi of Rehmatpura, the accused sent Naeem to Muscat after receiving the amount, but failed to arrange employment there. Later, Naeem was repatriated to Pakistan by the Muscat Immigration.

BODY FOUND: Nishatabad police recovered mutilated body of a young factory labourer near Sem nullah at Chak Bawa on Wednesday.

Musawar Bashir, a resident of Bawa Chak, left for his job on Tuesday night. Musawar’s parents informed the police when he didn’t return home. The police shifted the body to Allied Hospital for autopsy after registering a case.