MS 'corrects' MLC issued by doctor after protest.

BAHAWALNAGAR -- Following protest by scores of residents of Behramka Hathar village on Sunday at Minchinabad Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, the medical superintendent re-examined a matter pertaining to issuance of a false medico-legal certificate and corrected the document.

According to the protesters, on July some politically influential men thrashed a 17-year-old youth, Samar, and threatened to shoot him in the presence of his mother, when he was cutting fodder in the fields at the village.

The youth was rescued by some locals who reached the scene after hearing his cries.

The victim's father, Usman Sheikh, told the media persons that after he reported the matter to the local police, some policemen inspected the crime scene and recorded statements of eyewitnesses.

He alleged that Minchinabad deputy superintendent, in connivance with the attackers, stopped the police from registering a case. He said on July 22 the attackers went to the local THQ hospital and tried to get a fake MLC of one of their...