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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Reports on runaway Cases in courts workers can be lodged on Metrash2 DOHA: The Ministry of Interior has added an extra drop despite service on its popular Metrash2 service list. From now on sponsors can use the facility to lodge com- population rise plaints about their ‘missing’ or ‘absconding’ workers, the minis- try announced. The message will immediately Council releases latest data reach the Search and Follow-up Department at the ministry. DOHA: Despite Qatar’s gallop- inheritance and children have Sponsors can also submit the ing population rate, the number been growing over the past few passports of the absconding of cases coming up before courts years. The number rose from workers within 48 hours to the is fast declining. 5,251 in 2011 to 5,351 in 2012, but department. The latest data released by the dropped slightly to 5,345 in 2013. The ministry is constantly Supreme Judicial Council show However, a section of legal improving and simplifying its that cases, including those reach- experts were of the view that the services delivery channels. ing criminal courts, have declined data does not reflect reality. It introduced Metrash2 to significantly. They attributed the steady A Palestinian child sits on a mattress on the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Abasan, east of enable citizens and residents to The population grew by 33 per- decline in the number of cases the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis and close to the border with Israel, yesterday.