Court sends ‘bookies’ to jail

SIALKOT, April 30: Magistrate Tajjamal Hussain Hunjra on Saturday sent four alleged bookies, who are also accused of intimidating former Pakistani wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider on telephone, to jail on 14-day judicial remand. Earlier, the Sambrial police produced Hayyat, Sarfraz Sheikh, Shahid Waheed, all residents of Sambrial, and Sagheer Ahmed Bhatti, a resident of Chak-62, Bahawalpur, before the court. Investigations SP Nasir Muneef Qureshi said the police had arrested eight men during a raid on a house in Sambrial`s Alleywali locality on Wednesday. However, the police produced only four of them in the court while the remaining four were yet to be produced before any court of law as they were being interrogated by the police and intelligence agencies. Talking to reporters, Sambrial SHO Inspector Shehzad Warraich also said that the remaining four suspects identified as Muhammad Rizwan Gujjar and Ghulam Far eed Mayo, residents of Alleywali, Aamir Ali Malik, a resident of Jaithikey village near Sambrial, and Aslam were being interrogated at secret places and that`s why the police did not produce them before any court of law to obtain their remand. He said the police would produce the four suspects before the court after completing interrogation. DIES: Qasim Habib, a student of Sialkot Grammar School`s Bhopalwala branch who was injured in an accident on Friday, succumbed to his injuries at Mayo Hospital in Lahore on Saturday. Habib, the son of senior lawyer Azam Nagra, was injured when the van he was travelling in hit a roadside tree owing to speeding. Habib was taken to Mayo Hospital in critical condition where he expired next morning. Later, he was buried in a local graveyard. The school management and local bar associations have expressed their condolences over Habib`s demise. JI: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has shifted the venue for holding its `Azam -i-Inqlab Conference` on Sunday (today) from Government Murray College to Government Pilot High School after the administration denied permission to hold the conference on college premises. JI spokesperson Aadil Turabi said that all was set to hold the grand conference at the new venue. Thousands of party workers from across the country would attend the conference, he said.