MUZAFFARGARH: Member of National Assembly (MNA) Jamshed Dasti and Meharpur Union Council (UC) Chairman Malik Ajmal were presented in the duty magistrate?s court late Friday night.

Dasti and Ajmal were arrested earlier in the day by the Punjab Police for forcibly opening a canal in Muzaffargarh on May 28, following which the irrigation department lodged a case against the MNA.

Jamshed Dasti forcibly opens a canal in Muzaffargarh on May 28. 

The two men were transferred to Central Jail Multan on judicial remand.

Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had taken notice of the incident and instructed authorities to take stern action against Dasti.