The son of an influential person beat up a fellow student by sending drunk and armed men, who tortured students and teachers in an academy, in Green Town Police precincts.
According to details, ten armed men thrashed and tried to kidnap a student Hamza, who had a scuffle with his classmate a few days ago, after taking students and teachers hotage in an academy in the Fawara Chowk of Green Town. When Principal Saifullah and some students tried to rescue Hamza, the armed men beat them up as well.
Three people including the principal were injured in the clash. The police reached the crime scene after a student informed them but the assailants managed to escape the scene. A case was registered against 10 people including Ghulam Hussain, Ghulam Rasool, Nasir, Babar and Bodi.
The police claimed to raid for arrests but to no avail.
ACCIDENTS: Separately, road accidents claimed five lives in the city. According to details, a victim of an accident on Ferozpur Road, Abdul Rasheed succumbed to injuries in Jinnah Hospital. Three other men named Ahmed Ali, Riaz and Afzaal, who were injured in different road accidents, died in Lahore General Hospital.
The dead bodies were handed over to the deceased’s families after due procedures. Also on Saturday, a six year old girl who got burnt in her house, due to a fire breaking out, also lost her life in Jinnah Hospital.
