Dacoit killed in ‘encounter’

Published September 3, 2005

TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 2: Another member of the Badshah gang was killed in an encounter with police here on Friday. Police and Elite Force personnel from Pirmahal, Rajan, Kamalia and Toba were in search of the accomplices of dacoit Zafar Zafri who was killed some two days ago in an encounter in the forests near Kassowal and Kamalia.

The police confronted the gang on Friday, and exchanged a fire with its members for two hours as a result of which Ramzan of Chak 744-GB was killed.

DPO Khalid Laleka claimed that some gang members had been injured in the shootout, and the police would nab them within a couple of days.

During the last two years, six members of this gang had been killed in encounters, and nine others arrested.

A source claimed that the gang members had raped a number of women during dacoity incidents both in Toba and Sahiwal.

FRAUD CASE: Gojra Sadar police on Friday registered a fraud case against polling staff and two councillors-elect of Chak 424-JB in union council 12 of Gojra tehsil for changing results.

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