Family demands justice for man killed for pursuing case.

BAHAWALNAGAR -- Scores of locals and family members of a man killed on Monday night allegedly by the guards of a landlord for pursuing a case against him protested against the police on Tuesday by placing the body at Minchinabad's Allah Akbar Chowk, alleging that the police were protecting the culprits.

The protesters blocked the Minchinabad-Head Sulemanki highway for several hours by burning tyres and raised slogans against the police and said the body would not be buried until the killers were arrested.

Hafiz Muhammad Saddam, the brother of deceased Jahangir Gujjar, of Mauza Landi Dadu Aholka told the media his brother had been killed by the guards of landlord Muhammad Azhar for pursuing a case against the landlord. His cousin was also seriously injured in the attack and was shifted to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital.

Azhar and one of his guards had been arrested in a raid on May 7 and booked for allegedly torturing a petrol pump owner and his employees, threatening to kill them, firing in the air and possessing illegal arms. A case against them was registered on the complaint of Saddam's cousin, Ameer Hamza, in which deceased Jahangir was an eyewitness.

The protesters said police had been informed that Jahangir feared being attacked for...