KARACHI: For the first time, the Sindh police have prepared a ‘black book’, featuring names of all the notified criminals/dacoits for whose arrest the provincial government had announced reward money, it emerged on Monday.

This booklet has been sent to all regional additional inspectors general of police to share it with police stations to launch a drive for their arrest.

The crime record of all the notified criminals/dacoits and other necessary information has been provided in the book, a police spokesperson said.

According to the police, there were 156 notified criminals/dacoits for whose arrest the Sindh government had announced reward money ranging from Rs100,000 to Rs4 million.

Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2019

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