DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 7: Patrolling police foiled an attempt to smuggle Iranian petrol into Punjab by impounding two tankers at the tribal area border here on Tuesday.

Reports said Sakhi Sarwar patrol police halted the tankers (TKA 885, TTA 416) for routine checking and found them filled with smuggled petrol.

The police arrested the drivers Juma and Amir. No FIR of the incident was registered yet.

Sources say the Border Military Police and the Patrolling Police connive at facilitating smuggling of Iranian petrol on Dera-Quetta road.

It is alarming to note that the tankers reached Sakhi Sarwar post after crossing three main checkpoints manned by BMP personnel in the tribal area tehsil.

SHOT DEAD: A handcuffed accused was shot dead on Tuesday by his rivals in police custody on district courts’ premises here.

Reports said accused Hazoor Bakhsh was brought in the court of Civil Judge Ejaz Gondal by Darkhast Jamal Khan police for remand. He was having tea at the canteen on the district court premises along with some policemen after attending the court proceedings, when his rival Abbas Ahmadani and Razak shot at him. The accused, who was handcuffed, received critical bullet injury and was rushed to the local DHQ hospital where he died.