MUZAFFARGARH, July 23: A truck driver had to suffer from deep mental agony when police and an Emergency 15 squad did not come to his rescue during a robbery because of jurisdiction.

Ghulam Husain told Dawn on Monday that he was driving his biscuits-laden truck (LES-5662) on Sunday night on Muzaffargarh-Mianwali Road. About 23km away from Sinawan, four robbers blocked the road and held him up at gunpoint. He said they tied him and his conductor with a tree and started unloading items worth Rs1 million from the truck.

Risking his life, Ghulam Husain said he took out his mobile phone and called 15 for help. But the emergency police told him to contact Sinawan police station and gave him the telephone number. On contacting the police station, SHO Mirza Safdar said the area did not fall in his jurisdiction. Mr Safdar asked the driver to contact Munda police station which claimed that the area fell under the jurisdiction of Sinawan police.

Ghulam Husain said during one-hour robbery, no patrolling police passed from there. When contacted, Sinawan SHO Safdar Mirza claimed that the place where robbery occurred did not fall in his jurisdiction. He said he was patrolling at a far-off place.