GUJAR KHAN, Dec 29: One of the two persons taken into custody on the suspicion of having murdered a moneychanger has confessed to the crime, District Police Officer (DPO) Saud Aziz told reporters here on Friday.

The police also recovered Rs3 million local as well as foreign currency from him.

The moneychanger, Ghazanfar Mahmood, was shot dead near Bewal Town in the early hours of December 21 as he was going home after drawing money from Rawalpindi.

According to the officer, Nisar Raja and his uncle Amjad were accompanying Ghazanfar from Rawalpindi. Later Amjad got off in Kalial Village. Nisar informed the parents of Ghazanfar Mahmood that an unidentified couple, who had been given lift on the way, killed Mahmood and escaped with Rs3 million.

The officer said the investigation team, headed by DSP/SDPO Gujar Khan Raja Taifur Akhtar Janjua, had taken Nisar and Amjad into custody and during the course of the interrogation, Nisar confessed to having committed the crime.

The officer said Amjad was also being probed to find out whether he had any role to play in the murder of Ghazanfar. The parents and close relatives of the victim were also present during the DPO’s press conference.

Meanwhile, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Inayatullah Farooq told mediapersons that about 25 persons allegedly involved in criminal cases had been rounded up by the police in the jurisdiction of Gujar Khan, Jatli and Mandra police stations.

Two Kalashnikovs, two rifles, five pistols, one revolver, a dagger and sizable quantity of narcotics and liquor had been recovered from their possession.

The district police officer said the police were taking every possible step to curb crime in the area and efforts were underway to forge public-police liaison. Saud Aziz said with the recruitment of 2,300 more policemen, double shift in police stations would be started and working of the force improved.