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SUKKUR, April 13: At least 20 dacoits armed with automatic weapons barged into the Abad police station, Sukkur, and freed six of their associates from its lockup in the wee hours of Sunday.
Their associates — Ramzan Chachar, Hajan Channa, Baboo Shah, Sabir Shaikh, Nawab Brohi, and Mushtaq Domki — had been arrested by the police last week and kept in the lockup for investigation.
Police sources claimed that the dacoits overpowered two constables, Dildar Shaikh and Irshad Ahmed, and a wireless operator, and fled safely with their six associates. Two other prisoners, Ali Mohammad Mastoi and Hashim Malik, who were also in the lockup, refused to go.
They claimed that when Constable Dildar refused to hand over the key of the lockup, the dacoits opened fire injuring him in the process.
Police are investigating whether the police personnel of the Abad police station were involved in the crime.
TWO ARRESTED: Two alleged dacoits, Anwar Shahani and Bhutto Pitafi, were arrested after an encounter with the police from the Dad Leghari village, Ghotki district, on Sunday.
Police sources said that some of their accomplices managed to escape.
BODY HANDED OVER: The body of a dacoit, Nawazo Bugti, who was killed in an encounter with the police on Saturday, near Kandhkot, was handed over to his relatives through a deal with the TPO, Tangwani, and the SHO, Risaldar, on Sunday.
The dacoit’s relatives, said to be Bugti tribesmen, handed over two Kalashnikovs and an SMG belonging to the police to the police officials on the condition that the latter would hand over Nawazo’s body.
They received the body from the SHO, Risaldar police station.
PROTEST: The people held a protest for the second consecutive day against the construction of a police building for the B-Section police station in New Pind, Sukkur, on Saturday.
They held a demonstration in front of the office of the acting Nazim, Iqbal Dawood, demanding of him to order the police to stop the construction.
Mr Dawood, while talking to this correspondent, said that the disputed plot was the property of the Sukkur Municipal Corporation and not the police.
He said he had asked the AIGP, Sukkur Range, Rahoo Khan Brohi, to stop the construction work.
He said that he had directed the taluka municipal council to get evidence of the ownership of the disputed plot so that senior police officials could be consulted.
