TOBA TEK SINGH: A couple and their young son died and their other son was injured critically when the dilapidated roof caved in a house during rain in Fazil Dewan locality of Kamalia on early Friday morning.

Rescue 1122 officials say that the floor of a washroom on the second floor of the building collapsed on a room on the first floor, where the family was residing.

A Rescue 1122 team, responding to an emergency call, reached the spot and retrieved the bodies of Akram (50), his wife Kausar Perveen (45) and their son Bilal (15), after removing the debris with the help of locals.

Their other son, Hamza (22), who was critically injured, was rescued and shifted to the Kamalia THQ Hospital.

Assistant commissioner Ms Ghazala Yasin Chadhar visited the spot and told reporters that the municipal committee had declared the dilapidated house dangerous and a notice had also been served on the residents to vacate it. However, they ignored the notice and kept residing in the rundown building, resulting in the tragedy, she added.

RAPED: A man allegedly raped a poor woman with the help of his female accomplice at Gojra’s Chak 417-JB on Friday.

Gojra Saddar police say the suspect called the poor woman ‘S’ through another woman on the pretext of washing his clothes and subjected her to rape.

The suspect and his accomplice fled away after the crime, while the police are conducting raids to arrest them.

ABDUCTED: A man and his two accomplices allegedly kidnapped a married woman in Jinnah Colony, Gojra on Friday.

Complainant Azra Bibi said in the FIR that her daughter-in-law Muqaddas Bibi was alone at home when the suspect, Asif, and his two accomplices abducted her.

Police have started investigations.

COPS ARRESTED: Faisalabad’s Civil Lines police have arrested four constables on the charges of unlawfully arresting a man and keeping him hostage in a transport company’s office at the general bus stand.

Complainant ASI Sajjad Ahmad said in the FIR registered under section 342 of the PPC and section 155 C of the Police Order that the Civil Lines SHO received a complaint that constables Ahmad, Atif, Asim and Shahid illegally arrested one Amer Shabbir of Tariqabad locality and demanded Rs40,000 as bribe from his family to release him.

Acting on the complaint, the SHO leading a police team raided the transport company’s office and recovered the victim.

The SHO arrested his four subordinates for their involvement in the crime.

BLASPHEMY CASE: Jhang’s Kot Shakir police have registered a case against a man for allegedly committing blasphemy.

As per the FIR registered under section 295-A of the PPC and section 16 of The Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance 1960, complaint Haji Ahmad Khokhar of Athara Hazari alleged that the suspect sent him blasphemous voice massages. Police are conducting raids to arrest the accused.

Published in Dawn, March 2nd, 2024