Gambling: Interim bails of 4 brothers cancelled

LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Javed Iqbal Sheikh on Friday cancelled interim bails granted to four suspected gamblers, who opened fire in public and injured a child. According to the police, the four brothers – Muhammad Tariq, Ashiq, Rafaqat Ali and Sharafat Ali – had opened fire on one Sabir Hussain on July 2. Hussain was Injured. One of the bullets also hit a passerby, a minor girl, who has been paralysed from the waist down since then. The men had suspected Hussain of telling the police about a gambling den that they were operating.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 17^th, 2012.