Rickshaw Driver’s Suicide: IG, CTO order probes
Separate probes into the the suicide of a rickshaw driver reportedly after being fined twice in a day.
FAISALABAD:
Inspector General of Punjab Police and Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Sardar Asif Khan on Friday ordered separate probes into the the suicide of a rickshaw driver reportedly after being fined twice in a day. Shaukat Ali, resident of D-Type Colony, had tried to persuade the warden to spare him. He returned to the scene an hour later and swallowed poisonous pills in front of the warden. Shaukat was rushed to hospital where he died later.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2011.
Inspector General of Punjab Police and Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Sardar Asif Khan on Friday ordered separate probes into the the suicide of a rickshaw driver reportedly after being fined twice in a day. Shaukat Ali, resident of D-Type Colony, had tried to persuade the warden to spare him. He returned to the scene an hour later and swallowed poisonous pills in front of the warden. Shaukat was rushed to hospital where he died later.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2011.