KOHAT: The police on Saturday arrested a constable impersonating as an army captain and collecting money from people on job promise.

The district police officer has suspended the constable, Sadiqur Rehman, a resident of Baqizai Tappi area, and ordered a departmental inquiry against him.

SHO cantonment police Qismat Khan along with a team was checking vehicles and people at a checkpost on the University Road near the railway crossing, when he spotted a motorcyclist coming in the uniform of an army captain.

The police searched him and found a mobile phone, which contained fake advertisements for jobs, badges of army officers, and WhatsApp messages of money deals.

The policeman admitted to his crime.

Meanwhile, the Saddar police arrested a proclaimed offender, two facilitators and three drug peddlers among 95 suspects, and recovered illegal weapons from them during an operation on Saturday.

DSP Saddar Saifur Rehman and SHO Islamdudin led operations on Rawalpindi Road, in Togh Bala and Payan, the College Town and the bus stand.

The seizure included four Kalashnikovs, a repeater, 10 pistols, a shotgun, 41 kilogram hashish and 410 grams of ice drug.

FRUIT MARKET: A tug-of-war between the Water Supply and Sanitation Company (WSSC) and the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) over jurisdiction issue has turned the government fruit and vegetable market into the debris of filth.

President of the market Yousuf Afridi told a press conference on Saturday that each wholesale dealer paid Rs3 million tax a year to the TMA, but there was no system of cleanliness in the market.

He said when they complained to the TMA, the municipal body referred them to WSSC saying the market was in the latter’s jurisdiction. However, he said the WSSC told them the fruit market was the domain of TMA.

The TMA, he said argued that it paid millions of salaries to the 500 staff of WSSC under an agreement, therefore, it was responsible for running the fruit market.

WSSC deputy general manager Tahir Afif showed a copy of the agreement to Dawn, which mentioned that TMA was responsible for ensuring cleanliness around the new and the old bus stands, fruit and vegetable market and the slaughterhouse.

Published in Dawn, january 1st, 2023