Mob violence: 6 booked for ‘attacking’ FESCO office

Court orders registration of case against FESCO staff.

FAISALABAD/ NOSHERA VIRKAN: Ghulam Muhammadabad police registered cases against six people on Thursday for attacking a Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) office.

The Ghulam Muhammadabad SHO said that the FESCO teams conducted a raid in Siddhupura and detected two cases of electricity theft. “The FESCO staff then removed the meters of the consumers. When the teams returned to their Faizabad office, a mob assaulted them and damaged furniture. The FESCO employees were also threatened with dire consequences,” the SHO said.

“We have now registered two separate cases against six suspects and started an investigation,” the SHO said.

He said that a police team had been formed to look for the suspects. Later on Thursday, Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Naeem Saleem on Wednesday ordered the registration of a case against the FESCO Faizabad sub divisional officer (SDO) and other staff. Ali Abid, a lawyer, filed a petition before the court, claiming that the FESCO staff had beaten him.

“I went to the FESCO Faizabad office to seek restoration of my electricity meter. However, the SDO, the meter inspector, the line superintendent and their seven other unidentified accomplices attacked me and subjected me to severe beating. They also took my wallet, containing Rs25,000. They then locked me in a room and threatened me with dire consequences,” he stated.

“When I raised a hue and cry, my neighbours gathered on the spot and freed me,” he said.

After hearing the petition, the judge issued orders for the registration of a case against the SDO and 10 accomplices. The court directed the Ghulam Muhammadabad police to submit a copy of the FIR in the court at the earliest.

Man kills sister, brother-in-law

A man shot and killed his sister and her husband in a village on Thursday. According to police, Faisal aka Mithu of Mauza Mari Kot did not want his sister Shabnum, a school teacher, to marry Zafar Iqbal of the same village.

Shabnum and Zafar Iqbal were preparing to attend a wedding function near Nokhar when Faisal along with his friend Feroze Ahmed shot them in the faces and fled. The couple died on the spot. The suspects fled.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 26^th, 2014.