BADIN: The Pangrio Police on Thursday registered an FIR No 20, 2017 against three hundred farmers for stealing the irrigation water from the Khairpur Gambo Regulator.
Sub-engineer Abdul Majeed Channa, the complainant of the case, stated that some three hundred farmers, under the leadership of Manzoor Ahmed Chandio, Rajab Ali Sirai and Zahid Gujar, on Wednesday, stormed the Sangi Regulator near Malkani Sharif and after closing the gates, they diverted the flow in their waterway Sangi Minor.
Channa claimed that when they tried to stop them from the illegal practices that threatened their staffers of the dire consequences and added that the mob was carrying weapons.
Pangrio Police Station SHO Aftab Ahmed Rind, when contacted said that the FIR under sections of 430 and 34 PPC was registered against three known accused and over three hundred unidentified people. Rind said police was conducting raids to arrest the main accused and their accomplices.
Sindh Abadagar Association Chairman Pir Fayaz Hussain Shah Rashdi said that irrigation officials were themselves responsible for the mess, as non-supply of water has forced the local farmers to take the law into their hands.
Rashidi deplored that the irrigation secretary visited the regulator on April 26 and directed his subordinates to ensure a transparent distribution among the farmers.
A terrible water crisis was forcing farmers to take up the arms, he said.
Irrigation officials and influential were trying to lead the bloodbath among the small growers and the farmers of the area, Rashidi lamented.
