HYDERABAD, July 16: Police on Monday arrested a four-member inter-provincial gang of highwaymen, some of whom were also involved in kidnapping servants of the princes of Abu Dhabi in 2005, said acting DPO of Hyderabad, Javed Odho, on Monday.

He told journalists at a press conference that a team comprising SP Zulfikar Mahar, TPO of Qasimabad and SHO of Bhittai Nagar police station raided four different places after he received a tip-off that the gang was in the city near Al-Falah Hotel.

The gang was led by Haji Khan Bijarani, a resident of Bahar Khan Bijarani village of Kandhkot taluka. His real name is Ali Hassan and he was involved in the kidnapping of Dilmeer Khokhar Baloch and Khalid, servants of princes of Abu Dhabi, he said.

The official said that his co-accused, Sajjan Koryani and Wazir Mohamadani, managed to flee. Police had filed a case for possessing unlicensed TT pistols against him, he said.

Another gang-member is Mohammad Nawaz Mir Bahar, a resident of Bachal Shah Miyani of Sukkur.

He was also booked as co-accused and also faced a separate case for possessing a TT pistol and five rounds.

The acting DPO said that Zulfikar Ali Chhajjar, a police constable of Jamshoro, who had earlier been challaned in highway robbery, was also booked.