May 08, 2008	Thursday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 2, 1429

GUJRANWALA, May 7: Four flour mills were sealed after a joint raiding team of the food department and Rangers seized over 100 tons of flour being smuggled to tribal areas besides arresting five truck drivers here on Wednesday.

Reports said that on a tip-off that flour bags in large quantity were being smuggled to tribal areas by trucks, the joint team raided godowns on Sheikhupura Road, Baigpur and Sadhoki and recovered around 3,000 flour bags.

While the same raiding party set up a picket at River Chenab bridge in Wazirabad and seized five trucks loaded with flour bags besides arresting drivers, Syed Kamal Shah, Tahir of Swat, Quaid Hussain, Ehsanullah and Murawat Shah.

During investigation, the arrested accused confessed that the flour bags were being smuggled to tribal areas.

The raiding party got registered a case against the accused.

QUACKS HELD: The federal investigation agency (FIA) claimed they had arrested three quacks and recovered a huge quantity of spurious herbal medicines from their possession here on Wednesday.

Reports said that an FIA team, led by inspector Amanullah, raided Al-Saudia Tibi Foundation at Lorry Adda, Dawakhana Hakim Saifullah Seikho at Alam Chowk and Alfalah Dawakhana at Wahdat Colony and arrested quacks Jamshed Ahmad, Hakim Muhammad Javed and Muhammad Bilal.

FIA additional director Hussain Asgher said that FIRs had been got registered against the accused with police stations concerned.

Meanwhile, four fake drug inspectors were caught red-handed while checking medical stores here on Wednesday.

A raiding party, headed by Wazirabad THQ Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Farrukh Humayun, caught accused Bilawal, Bilal, Mustansar and Tariq.

COPS BOOKED: On the orders of the district and sessions judge, 16 police officials, including a station house officer and an investigation officer, were booked on Wednesday on charges of trespassing the house of a lawyer and manhandling him without any justification.

District bar member Abdul Sattar told the court that Civil Lines SHO inspector Ramzan Kamboh, sub-inspector Muhammad Khan, assistant sub-inspector Rana Akhtar and constables Sharif, Sultan, Iftikhar and Imran along with some touts trespassed his house a few days ago and manhandled him and his family.

Judge Arshad Mahmood ordered registration of a case against the police officials.