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GUJRANWALA, Jan 2: The district police claim to have arrested 3,211 proclaimed offenders and 279 members of 64 robber gangs in 2003. The police recovered the plundered goods worth Rs27 million from their possession, DPO Saud Aziz told newsmen on Friday.
Saying that the local police had reduced crime in the year compared with the previous year, he said, they got a clue to 25 blind murders, including that of army naib subedar Ghazanfar Ali, near Dogranwala village and arrested the killer(s) of former provincial minister Chaudhry Farooq Ahmad in a tribal area.
The police, he said, had registered 2,736 cases of illicit arms and recovered 34 kalashnikovs, a hand grenade, stein gun, 241 rifles, 287 guns, 367 revolvers, 559 pistols, 102 carbines and 12,313 rounds from the possession of the robbers during special drives.
TWO KILLED: A man killed his creditor at Waianwali village in Gakkhar Town, on Friday. Reports said Shaukat purchased a mini-bus from Ashraf, of Gujrat, and promised that he would pay him Rs400,000 for that within few days. When Ashraf went to ask for the amount, his debtor confined him and later shot him dead on Friday.
He also killed his own wife, Kaneez Bibi, saying he had found both developing illicit relations. However, police arrested Shaukat and his brother, Shafqat, and registered a double murder case against them.
COURT MOVED: Some prisoners of the Central Jail moved a local court through a memorandum on Friday that some jail officials allegedly desecrated the Holy Book during a search operation and manhandled them for revealing the incident.
According to the memorandum, jail officials Jan Muhammad alias Jani and Wahid alias Jajja searched the belongings of condemned captive Maulvi Muhammad Arshed in the presence of the jail authority and allegedly threw Holy Book on the ground.
They further accused that jail officials manhandled him and other prisoners when they strongly protested against the desecration of the Holy Book and directed them not to disclose the incident to anyone.
They also revealed that the newly-inducted assistant superintendent jail Ashraf humiliated the prisoners during the search operation and abused them on minor issues.
The prisoners asked the district and sessions judge to get registered a blasphemy case against jail officials involved in the incident. When contacted, the jail superintendent said that captives had informed him two days after the incident and that he was investigating into the matter.
SENT TO POLICE LINES: The Ghakkhar Town SHO was sent to Police Lines on Friday for not arresting the killer(s) of a slain constable. SHO Mahmood Bhatti had arrested the accused involved in the murder case and later released them.
HOSPITAL: A 12-bed police hospital, which has been constructed at the district police line, would start functioning from February, DPO Saud Aziz told newsmen on Friday. He said Rs1.8 million had been spent on the establishment of the hospital where the children of police officials would get medical facilities.
