Rs1 million house robbery

Published March 11, 2006

SAHIWAL, March 10: Six masked bandits robbed the house of a trader in Chak 19/11-L on Thursday night. The bandits reportedly entered the house of Ramzan at around midnight. They removed gold jewellery worn by the women members of the family at gunpoint, collected other valuables and Rs451,000 in cash and decamped with the booty worth around Rs1 million firing shots in the air.

ARRESTS: The Anti-Corruption Establishment, in two separate raids under the supervision of judicial magistrates, arrested an inspector of social security institution and a patwari while accepting illegal gratification here on Thursday.

Social security inspector Shahzad Ahmad demanded Rs3,000 from the manager of Sunny Marble Factory. The manager informed the ACE which caught the inspector red handed.

Patwari Ghulam Mustafa had demanded Rs800 from grower Talib Husain Baloch of Chak 101/9-L for the provision of a document (fard) of his land. The ACE arrested him red handed on Talib’s complaint.

Cases have been registered and both the accused sent to jail on 14 days’ judicial remand.

WARRANTS: The special anti-corruption judge at Sahiwal issued non-bailable warrants for arrest of three government employees and four other people.

The accused government employees are; Pervez Akhtar, Waqar Abbas and Sheikh Muhammad Sharif while the others include Riaz Ahmad a contractor, Tariq Mahmood, Mahmood Akbar and Muhammad Akram.

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