MIANWALI, Dec 30: A jail warden was arrested on the charges of supplying narcotics to inmate.
According to the police, Ghulam Abbas was deputed on Central Jail’s main gate and 565 grammes of heroin was recovered from his possession during a raid.
Later, Abbas told the investigators that Zafar Khan, the brother of a murder convict Muhammad Iqbal incarcerated in the jail, had given him the heroin to deliver it along with other items to Iqbal.
On the report of jail superintendent, the city police registered a case against Abbas and both Zafar and Iqbal and their father Muhammad Khan and started investigations.—APP