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TIMERGARA, Jan 19: Around 57 detained workers of the Tanzim Nefaz Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) were shifted under tight security from Timergara jail to district prisons in Dera Ismail Khan and Haripur on Saturday.
Only three detainees, held by law enforcement agencies on Saturday, were left in the jail, and four workers of the banned religious organization were released on bail.
Of all the detainees, 29 were taken to the Dera Ismail Khan jail, and 28 to Haripur jail.
According to sources, those shifted to Haripur also included TNSM armed-wing leader Malik Mehmood Jan and some important leaders.
The police sources said that TNSM workers had been held under Sections 188, 343, 124 and 93 of the Shariat Regulations. The police are conducting raids to arrest those leaders, who have gone underground.
CAR SNATCHING ATTEMPT: Four unidentified men tried to hijack a Datsun pickup at gunpoint and beat its driver here on Saturday.
The driver told the police by telephone that four armed men deprived him of his vehicle (DRA-28). He said the accused hired his vehicle, and when they were some five kilometres from Timergara they turned their guns on him.
A police party constituted to chase the hijackers found the vehicle abandoned at a deserted place. A case has been registered in this regard.
