BAHAWALNAGAR: A farmer was allegedly murdered during a robbery in Mcleod Ganj, while the armed robbers managed to escape with a solar inverter.
As per the first information report (FIR), registered with Mcleod Ganj police on Monday, Haji Muhammad, a farmer of Behrampur village was guarding the solar panels and inverter installed at the farmland owned by Ramzan.
It said that at dawn, five unidentified armed men arrived there, overpowered Haji Muhammad, tied him to the cot with a rope and wrapped a cloth on his mouth.
The farmer got suffocated and died on the spot, while the armed men took away the inverter worth Rs50,000, the FIR said.
Published in Dawn, August 13th, 2024
