SUKKUR: A PPP activist, booked in an extortion case at a Jacobabad police station, was granted interim bail by the Sindh High Court on Friday.

The case against Mir Farooq Jakhrani, the man in charge of a PPP MNA’s complaint cell, and several other suspects, was registered at the Saddar police station on the complaint of Rahimyar Khan Flour Mills Association chairman Abdul Rauf Mukhtiar Arain. The complainant alleged that an armed gang at the behest of Mir Farooq Khan Jakhrani, Haji Jalal Umrani, Manzoor Umrani and two other suspects intercepted a convoy of wheat and flour trucks at Jacobabad bypass and tried to extort money from truckers. However, he said the victims approached Rangers personnel who caught Manzoor Umrani but his associates fled.

Mr Jakhrani, when contacted, claimed that his political opponents had implicated him in the fake case.

Published in Dawn, April 18th, 2015

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