25 booked, 3 held over torturing Geo news team

25 booked, 3 held over torturing Geo news team

Updated at: 0832 PST, Sunday, December 06, 2009 LAHORE: At least three persons including the owner of a pharmacy store, accused of selling expired medicines, torturing Geo news team, damaging video camera and snatching mobile phone, were arrested and 25 others booked in a private hospital located in Johar Town of Lahore on Saturday, Geo news reported. According to sources, two separate cases were registered against the accused persons while the pharmacy store of the hospital was sealed. Sources said the incident of torture happened when the officials from Punjab Health Department were sealing the pharmacy store of a private hospital while Geo news team was present on the occasion when all at once, 25 persons attacked Geo news team, beating reported and tearing apart his clothes. Later, Johar Town police registered two separate cases against unknown culprits and arrested three of them, sources said.