SUKKUR, Jan 21. Five excise employees were booked on Monday for robbing a foreign national in a passenger bus near Kandhkot.

The “A” section police, Kandhkot, is conducting raids to arrest the booked excise inspector, Javed Jaskani, constable Latif Jaskani, K.K. Mahar, and two others, who are said to have gone into hiding.

An African national, Hamid Maray, came to the police station on Sunday and informed the police about the robbery incident.

He said that he was am travelling on a Quetta-bound bus, coming from Peshawar.

When the bus reached near Kandhkot, the excise staff entered the bus and after checking the documents of Mr Maray, they snatched 500 US dollars, 41,000 Indonesian rupiahs and 16,000 Pakistani rupees from him, he said.

When he offered resistance, the five excise employees tortured him, he said.

No senior official of excise department was available for comment.

NADRA: The Nadra, Sukkur office, has terminated its 18 absconding representatives of the Nawabshah district for not depositing computerized National Identity Cards forms and fee, which they had received from people.

The security fee of the Nadra representatives was also forfeited.