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GUJRANWALA, May 30: Aroop police claimed on Tuesday to have recovered a girl from Vehari who had been abducted some four days ago and arrested 10 alleged kidnappers. Saddar ASP Rai Ijaz Ahmad said ‘A’ was abducted four days ago. Police received information that the accused were present in Vehari on which a police party conducted a raid, arrested 10 kidnappers and recovered the girl from their custody.
The arrested accused have been identified as Ismaeel, Tariq, Akram, Basharat, Ghulam Sarwar, Naveed Ahmad, Qaiser and Khurram Shahzad.
IMPERSONATORS: As many as two candidates for traffic police sub-inspectors were arrested on charges of impersonation during the physical test here on Tuesday.
Reports said Shabir Ahmad and Danish Raza were impersonating as Usman Mahmood and Kashif Shahzad of Wazirabad during the physical test. On interrogation, they confessed the crime. Aroop police sent the accused to jail after registration of a criminal case against them.
arrested: A customs intelligence team claimed on Tuesday to have arrested an international drug trafficker in a raid from a bus and recovered about 62 capsules containing heroin worth Rs10 million from his belly.
The customs team got secret information that a narcotics smuggler was coming to Lahore from Mardan by a commuter bus (LZJ-9815). The team stopped the bus at Pindi Bhattian motorway interchange and arrested Khakster Khan with the contraband.
A case was registered against him.
Death awarded: The anti-terrorism court No 1 on Tuesday handed down death sentence on seven counts with Rs700,000 fine to an accused in an honour killing case in which seven people were murdered.
According to the prosecution, Inait Ullah of Sodara killed his sister Rehana Bibi for contracting love marriage, along with her husband Mirza Jan and relatives Saif Ullah, Sufian, Adnan, Bashir and Sewani on Nove 5, 2004.
The court declared the second accused Azam as proclaimed offender.
DACOITY: Dacoits looted the house of a medicine trader and decamped with foreign currency worth Rs6.4 million, Rs1.1 million cash and gold jewellery here on Tuesday.
Reports said three outlaws forced their entry into the house of Qaiser Pervaiz on College Road and held women and children hostage, locking them in a room. They collected foreign currency, gold jewellery (50 tolas) and cash and escaped.
Baghbanpura police have registered the case.
