MULTAN, March 20: The policemen who tracked down last month the main character of the robbery of multi-million rupees in the Railways’ Lahore Mughalpura workshop are waiting for the cash reward.

A railway police official, Nawaz Wahgah, was held responsible for the missing of Rs36 million from treasury of the Mughalpura workshop in December last year. The federal railway ministry had initially announced a reward of Rs1 million for the arrest of accused Nawaz.

A team, headed by railways SSP Khalid Farooq Mirza, was also constituted to track down the ‘culprit.’ Prominent among other members of the team were DSPs Amjad Manzoor, Abdul Wajid Siyal, inspectors Pervaiz, Shahid Nawaz and Malik Sarfraz. Sources said later the ministry had raised the reward to Rs2 million.

The wanted man was rounded up in February this year from Bahawalpur where he had shifted with his family after buying a house in Model Town.

However, the officials who successfully accomplished the task have yet to be rewarded.

The only thing the authorities have so far done on this front is that SSP Mirza Farooq’s name is proposed for the Quaid-i-Azam police medal, said a disappointed member of the investigation team that netted the most wanted man involved in what is being said the biggest robbery in the history of Pakistan railways.