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| KOMOTINI (Greece), June 7: Police in northeastern Greece on Thursday arrested 42 illegal immigrants who had marched an estimated 140km inland to get a ride in a truck to Athens, said a police source in the city of Komotini. The all-male group, aged 17 to 42, claiming to have come from ,Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq was found when the truck was stopped for a police inspection near Xanthi. Each of them were thought to have paid 1,000 euros to secure passage to Athens, said the police source.—AFP |
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Juries that hold innocent guilty
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| LAYYAH, June 7: A 13-year-old girl has been humiliated and tortured by some influential people to exact revenge for the wrong of her uncle on the orders of a self-proclaimed panchayat in Chaubara police station precinct, about 35 kilometres from here. Locals told Dawn that the influential group had kept Sughran Sadaf, 13, in illegal confinement. She was released when the police raided her tormentor’s house. According to reports, a woman eloped with Sughran’s uncle Saifullah two weeks ago and the couple tied the knot, but did not return. The woman’s father, Maqsood, pressured Sughran’s family to ensure return of his daughter but, on getting unfavourable response, approached lumberdar Ghulam Murtaza who constituted an illegal jury to decide the case. The jury, presided over by local influential Rana Abdul Qayyum and attended by many villagers, directed Sughran’s father Amanullah to produce his brother Saifullah before the panchayat. Amanullah sought two days to find out his brother, but the jury declined the request and demanded that he should hand over his daughter Sughran as tangible security. On Amanullah’s refusal to heed the panchayat order, Arif Murtaza, Maher Khan and others started beating him and dragged him towards his home. Later, they humiliated Amanullah’s daughter and dragged her through the streets of Chak 408-TDA to confine her along with her father at Maqsood’s house. |
