Land dispute: Contractor tortured

WAH CANTT: Armed persons have tortured a housing contractor and kidnapped his employee in the Wah Cantt area. Contractor Khalid Mehmood, who has been constructing a plaza, lodged a complaint with the police that Ashraf Awan and Wazir Sultan along with 13 armed persons arrived at his office in Nawababad on GT Road and attacked him and his employee, Mumtaz Khan. He said that the attackers ransacked the office, made away with Rs400,000, and kidnapped Khan. Meanwhile, the owner of the plaza, Dr Shahid, said that the attackers demanded a ransom from him. Sultan said that the contractor had encroached upon their land while constructing the plaza. He claimed that he and his accomplices had demolished some of the plaza’s walls which had been built on their land. A case has been registered against the suspects and an investigation is underway.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 3^rd, 2013.