KHANEWAL: Four employees of Water and Power
Development Authority (WAPDA) were tortured on Tuesday by at least 20 people involved in pilfering electricity.
WAPDA’s raiding
team including the tortured employees – Muhammad Ashfaq, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Naveed and Hafiz Liaqat–were sea
rching for those involved in electricity thefts.
The accused – Rana Arshad – was stealing electricity for his tube well through direct wire. He, along with 19 of his accomplices, alleg
edly attacked the raiding
team when they interferedand later tortured them.
Sadar police reached the spot and rescued the battered WAPDA employees as a finger
of one of the employee’s was also reportedly broken.