GUJRANWALA, April 10: A joint team of food department and police seized over 1,000 flour bags from a godown at lorry adda and a truck near Cantonment on Thursday.
Reports said the food department received information that a huge quantity of flour bags had been hoarded in a secret godown at lorry adda to smuggle them to tribal areas through buses.
A party, led by two food inspectors Azmat Ali Cheema and Baber Shahzad Gondal, raided there and recovered flour bags.
Flour bags were purchased by smugglers from sale points in the city at a fixed price of Rs295 per 20kg bag.
Police have registered a case against unidentified people.
In another incident, the Cantonment police seized a truck laden with flour bags on GT Road and arrested its driver Nusrat Javed.
GUARDS ROBBED: Three robbers looted guards of a private security company and decamped with a cash of Rs700,000 on GT Road on Thursday.
Reports said two guards of Zims security company were coming from Lahore carrying cash in a bag by a vehicle. Near Upper Chenab canal, Atawa, on GT Road, three men wearing police uniform intercepted them, overpowered them and administered them some intoxicant. As a result, the guards fell unconscious while the accused took away the bag containing Rs700,000.
The motorway police reached the spot and removed the guards to DHQ hospital. Police have registered a case and are investigating.
WARDENS: Traffic wardens have taken control of the city roads here.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of traffic warden system here on Thursday, city police officer Khadim Husain Bhatti said about 425 male and female wardens had been provided with five cars, three double cabin vans and two single cabins, two buses, two trucks, 25 heavy motorcycles, 100 125cc bikes, four lifters, a crane, an education vehicle and a mobile canteen.
He asked them to work hard for improving the traffic system in the city.
Later, wardens held a flag march on GT Road from Rawalpindi By-pass intersection to Gondlanwala Chowk.
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