GUJRANWALA, Sept 18: A murder accused escaped from police custody after unlocking his handcuffs in the absence of guards from the DHQ hospital here on Monday.

Sabzi Mandi police arrested Hamayun alias Teena after an encounter. He sustained injuries and was admitted to the DHQ hospital. Two constables were deputed for his supervision.

It is learnt that both the guards handcuffed him and went out of the ward when the accused escaped. Police officers reached the DHQ hospital on receiving the information. Both the guards were suspended from service.

However, authorities did not give the names of officials deputed for the supervision of the accused and now disappeared from the scene.

ARRESTED: Police claimed arrest of the robbers who shot at and injured a shopkeeper and his two sons during a robbery bid in Garjakh on Monday.

Police said three robbers forced their entry into the shop of Ehsan Ahmad on the main road at late hours and started looting. When Ehsan and his sons Ali Raza and Usman put up resistance, the robbers opened fire and injured them.

The residents of the area and police followed them and caught them after a brief encounter and recovered the looted goods and arms from their possession.

Police were keeping the names of the robbers secret.

BLACKMAILERS HELD: People’s Colony police claimed to have arrested two members of a gang of blackmailers who had prepared a porno movie of a religious scholar and demanded Rs2 million from him and recovered the movie from their possession on Monday.

Former khatib of Jamia Masjid Madina, Z-block, and lecturer of Islamiat, Maulana Azim Farooqi, lodged an FIR against Jamshed Farhan Mughal and Muhammad Husain that they were blackmailing him.

POISONOUS LIQUOR: A youth died after drinking poisonous liquor in Shaheenabad on Monday.

Irfan, 27, fell unconscious after drinking. He was rushed to the DHQ hospital where he died soon after arrival.

The body was handed over to the family without autopsy.