KOHAT: The city police arrested a six-member inter-district gang and seized more than 1,000kg of packed meat during an operation against large-scale sale of substandard chicken and fish meat late on Monday night.

The accused said they had received the meat from Punjab in containers and sold it to shops, fast food points, restaurants, and hotels.

SHO city police station Fayyaz Khan told reporters that the district police officer had been receiving reports of sale of substandard meat and had ordered action. He said an operation was carried out in the chicken market and old bus stand where the meat had been stored in dozens of deep freezers in warehouses.

Dr Abdul Basit of animal husbandry, who accompanied the raiding team, found the meat of extremely inferior quality and harmful for human consumption.

The six-member gang included Inamullah, Mashar Khan, Inayatullah Khan of Peshawar, Waheedullah Khan and Naimatullah of Charsadda and Mohammad Shaheen of Kohat. The meat was later destroyed by putting it on fire.

ARRESTED: The cantonment police solved a blind murder case of two shepherds by arresting two brothers along with the weapon used in the crime committed last week.

Musadiq Hayat and Adil Badshah had been murdered in Arawali area of Nasrat Khel on Hangu Road.

DPO Wahid Mehmood had constituted a team led by SP operations Tahir Iqbal which arrested Amir and his brother, Mohammad Ibraheem, who confessed to have committed the double murder over a dispute.

The police nominated both the accused in the FIR and presented them in court which sent them on judicial remand on Tuesday.

DNA REPORT: The DNA report on the mutilated body of a girl, which was recovered from an orchard near Bona Baba area a month ago, has confirmed that she was killed after being gang raped by unknown persons.

The age of the girl had been guessed as 18 whose body was found in an orchard by the gardener.

SHO Jungle Khel Niaz Bahadar told Dawn that they had recovered the body on Oct 4, but had not received any report of a missing person till Tuesday (today), when a woman and her husband reported their granddaughter missing.

Published in Dawn, November 6th, 2019