25 booked for blocking road

The police have registered a case against 25 people on charges of blocking a road by parking vehicles on a bypass and injuring citizens by beating them with sticks while they were passing by. Two injured passers-by were shifted to a hospital.

According to the police Sub-Inspector Muhammad Hanif posted at Thikriwala police station filed a case which stated that he was on patrol when Rescue 15 received information that some people had blocked the road near 64 JB.

The accused were reported to be injuring citizens by hitting them with stick and damaging the vehicles. When he reached the spot on this information, Tajamul Hussain son of Muhammad Hussain resident of Ismail Green was inciting the people who, along with twenty unknown persons, were holding firearms 30 Bore and sticks.

The accused had blocked the road by parking vehicles on the road and were beating up the passers-by and threatening them.

The protesters who blocked the road injured Zubair Rashid and Umair Rashid, sons of Abdul Rashid, resident of 61 JB with sticks.