MULTAN, Oct 2: As many as 17 accused involved in the trade of expired pesticides were sent to jail on judicial remand by the area magistrate here on Monday.

Mumtazabad police presented the accused in the court of area magistrate Izharul Haq Alvi who sent them to jail on judicial remand.

Reports said Multan police had seized expired pesticides worth Rs500 million on Sunday and arrested 17 people, four of them Egyptians, including Marwan Murshadi, Izat Fawad, Abdul Baeed, Mehmood, Tariq, Ismail, Saeed Ahmed, Akram, Muzaffar Ali, Ahmed Ali, Babar Husain, Ghulam Mustafa, Farooq Ahmed, Shaukat, Mukhtar, Manzoor, Aslam, Shafique and Naeem Ahmed. The police had seized 200,000 litres of expired pesticides filled in one, 10 and 100-litre containers.

SI booked: Khanewal police on Monday registered a case against a sub-inspector for allegedly providing shelter and helping escape eight accused in a triple murder case from police custody.

Reports said three people, including a UC naib nazim, were killed during a clash between two groups on Sept 12. Two accused Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam and Chaudhry Allah Ditta Bajwa are in police custody while SI Muhammad Arshad Chattha allegedly helped escape eight murder accused.

Kabeerwala police have lodged an FIR against Arshad on the direction of police high-ups. However, no arrest was made.