GUJRANWALA, Nov 30: The police on Friday arrested several arms dealers including three nazims of union councils and a son of former city nazim and seized huge quantity of weapons which were being distributed among political workers for the Jan 8 general elections illegally.

Talking to reporters at his office on Friday, DIG Khadim Husain Bhatti said that on a tip-off the police raided the shop of Atif Masood, an arms dealer and nazim of Gill Road union council in Civil Lines, and arrested him and his agents Imtiaz, alias Bilu Shah, and Sufi Usman and seized 31 sophisticated weapons from their possession.

Later, the police raided other arms suppliers' hideouts and arrested Nasir Goraya, Khiali Town nazim, Nadeem Butt, Ratta Bajwa union council nazim, Abdullah, son of former city nazim Babu Javed Ahmed, Iqbal, alias Bala Qatli, Tuwakal Sahi, a property dealer, Khawaja Asim and Afzal Husain and seized 80 weapons from their possession.

The DIG announced Rs5,000 cash prize for inspectors Amir Shahin Gondal, Nawaz Sayal, Saifullah Virk, Shahid Tanvir and Arif Khan who clamped down illegal arms suppliers in their respective police precincts.