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SAHIWAL, Aug 30: The management of Sahiwal Club caught a man with a pistol during a reception here on Tuesday night while his four accomplices managed to escape. Reports said the National Bank Officers Association hosted a reception for outgoing NBP regional chief Khalid Jameel Siddiqui when the club management caught Iqbal Janjua with a pistol.
On interrogation, the accused said he wanted to kill Mr Siddiqui as the latter had inflicted on him a loss of hundreds of thousands of rupees.
On the report of NBP officers welfare association president Rana Munir Ahmed, the civil lines police have registered a case. Four accomplices of the accused are yet to be arrested.
LOOTED: Cash and valuables amounting to over Rs1 million were taken away in three hits on Tuesday night.
Reports said four bandits entered the house of Dr Muhammad Siddiqui at Chak 75/5-R. They locked his family members in a room and decamped with cash and ornaments worth Rs0.5 million.
Near Chak 182/9-L, eight robbers tied 18 commuters with a rope, deprived them of their cash totalling Rs114,000 and threw them in fields. They injured farmer Muhammad Asghar with an axe on offering resistance. He was admitted to the DHQ hospital where his condition was stated to be serious. On Farid Town Road, bandits entered the showroom of Awais Ahsan and made off with cash and valuables worth Rs431,000.
Police have registered the cases under Sections 458, 380, 323 and 392 of the PPC.
