LAHORE, Oct 5: Robbers pretending to be members of CDGL’s fumigation team took away cash and jewellery worth over Rs9 million from the house of a Shahalam trader in Shadman on Wednesday.

The police said five robbers reached the house of Sheikh Arif Mahmood at around noon by a car and invited one of the family members outside to tell him that they had come to fumigate the house.

The intruders held the family members at gunpoint, locked them up in a room, collected 150-tola gold ornaments, Rs100,000 in cash, wristwatches and other valuables and fled. The police registered a case.

ROBBED: Two robbers intercepted Asad in Johar Town police limits and deprived him of Rs100,000 and a cell phone.

THEFT: Thieves took away an ambulance parked outside a private hospital on Jail Road.

The Shadman police said the ambulance (LOT-6573) was parked outside Ammar Hospital when thieves took it away.

The hospital owner, Dr Ammar Aslam, lodged an FIR.

RECOVERY: The police have arrested eight members of two gangs of thieves and robbers allegedly involved in stealing medicines worth Rs11 million from a factory and looting Rs4.7 million from a trader. The police also claimed to have seized the medicines and the cash.

CCPO Malik Ahmad Raza Tahir, Investigation DIG Ali Aamir Malik and CIA SP Umer Virk announced the arrests at a news conference here on Wednesday.

The CCPO said gang of three thieves led by Muhammad Fiaz allegedly stole medicines worth Rs11 million from Pacific Pharmaceuticals, Multan Road, on Sept 9. The police busted the gang and seized from them the stolen medicines.

He said the police also arrested five members of a robbers’ gang led by Irfan who had looted Rs47.5 million cash from fruit trader Mian Ejaz Mushtaq and his employees in June 2011. The robbers had also shot at and wounded one of Mushtaq’s employees.

Later, the CCPO distributed Rs1 million cash prizes and certificates among members of the CIA police team who had recovered the medicines.

Irfan Umer, the owner of the pharmaceutical company, had given the prize money to the department.