DADU, Oct 15: Four ‘notorious dacoits’ were arrested on Tuesday after an alleged encounter with the Dadu district police at Kari Mor, some 35 kilometres from here, within the jurisdiction of the Kakar police station.

Sources said senior superintendent of the Dadu police Tarique Razzaque Dharejo received information that Nisar Mashori’s gang was going to Kakar on the Indus Highway. The SSP directed Kakar police station’s SHO Abbas Babar to capture the gang. A Kakar police party cordoned off the Kari Mor area and on spotting the gang told the suspects to surrender, but they started firing at the police. After an hour of shootout, the police arrested ‘notorious dacoits Nisar Mashori, Yaseen Mashori’ and two other suspects and seized automatic weapons from them.

The SSP told newsmen that Nisar Mashori was wanted in over two dozen cases of robberies, murders, kidnapping and other heinous crimes. He said the Sindh government had put Rs500,000 on Nisar Mashori’s head. He said Nisar’s brother Yaseen Mashori was also an active criminal.

He said a security plan had been prepared for the protection of people travelling on the Indus Highway.