HYDERABAD, Dec 7: The office-bearers of Cattle Merchants Welfare Association have strongly protested against the loot and plunder on highways and said that some cattle merchants were robbed of over Rs1.5 million on Wednesday night while they were returning from Karachi in their truck.

In a joint statement here on Thursday, the office-bearers of the association, Baloch Khan Lashari, Latif Qureshi and Noor Muhammad said that after selling their cattle in Karachi, the cattle merchants of Umerkot were returning in their truck when they were intercepted by armed dacoits on Kathore link road.

They said that Ayub Samejo, Irfan Qurehsi, Bilal Mangrio, Ghafoor Halepoto, Mubarik Rahimoon, Muqeem Rahimoon, Allah Rakhio Rahimoon, Mithu Rahimoon, Sachu Rahimoon, Nihal Halepto and half a dozen others were deprived of rupees 1,558,360.

They said that they with their truck were abandoned in the Jhando Khoso graveyard within the jurisdiction of Tando Jam police station.

They complained that police refused to register their FIR and appealed the Sindh governor, corps commander and IG to order police to arrest the dacoits and recover the looted amount.