SUKKUR, June 21: The anti-corruption police along with a magistrate arrested Ghulam Sarwar Noonari, in-charge of the Humayoon police check-post, Shikarpur district, on Tuesday. A sum of Rs1 million cash which he had allegedly received as bribe from Shaukat Ali Baloch was recovered from him.

Police also seized the record of the bank from which the transaction had been made.

On May 26, Mr Noonari had stopped a truck coming from Quetta on way to Karachi carrying smuggled goods worth millions of rupees.

He arrested Shaukat Ali Baloch and four others and later confiscated the truck and asked Mr Baloch to arrange Rs2.5 millions for his release and get back the truck.

Mr Baloch negotiated with the police authorities and arranged Rs1.8 millions in Quetta which was sent through telegraphic transfer to a bank on the station road.

When the telegraphic transfer was received by the bank in the above account Ghulam Sarwar Noonari released Shaukat Ali.

The information about the matter was conveyed by someone to the deputy director of anti-corruption, Zulfiqar Junejo, who investigated the matter.

When Ghulam Sarwar Noonari arrived at the bank along with Riaz Qureshi to draw the money, the anti-corruption officials caught him and recovered Rs1 million from him.

CANAL BREACH: Crops on hundreds of acres of land and 10 houses were inundated when a 60-foolt-wide breach developed in the Muhabat Wah in the Wandh village near Kotdiji on Tuesday morning.