PO arrested

Published August 24, 2003

SADIQABAD, Aug 23: The district police claimed on Saturday to have arrested a proclaimed offender carrying Rs300,000 bounty on his head.

Police said Hafiz Muhammad Aslam and his two accomplices shot dead Shahbaz Husain Shirazi, a sub-inspector of police, at Chishtian three years ago. A court declared him proclaimed offender and fixed Rs300,000 bounty.

Aslam was about to make for Karachi when a police team, led by an information, held him in Liaquatpur.

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