Agricultural Angst: 6 booked for destroying crop

Men beat lanlord and his sons up while three others took a tractor and destroyed his crop.


Express October 19, 2011

DASKA: A case was registered against six people for destroying several acres of standing crop belonging to a landlord on Wednesday. According to police officials, Kanwaan Lut resident landlord Asif Mehmood was at his dera when accused Muhammad Iqbal and six other armed men arrived at his dera and held him at gun point. “The men beat him and his sons up while three others took a tractor and destroyed his crop. The remaining gun men locked them up and beat them,” said Mehmood’s munshi Jalal. Asif Mehmood later told police that the men had been trying to seize his land and they had been engaged in a long standing dispute over his property. Police officials have registered a case against 6 people and are searching for their whereabouts.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20th, 2011.

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