SANGHAR, Oct 27: A civil judge raided Preetamabad police station on Monday and ordered release of three people who were detained illegally in a poultry farm behind the police station.

The judge Yousuf Malik conducted the raid on the order of district and sessions judge Amjad Ali Bohio on an application filed by Ayaz Pathan.

Pathan stated in the application that DSP Atta Mohammad Dahiri and the SHO picked up his father Sadiq and brothers Riaz and Arshad and detained them without any charges.

When the judge raided the police station he did not find the three in the lockup but in the meantime, the detainees, who were confined in a poultry farm behind the police station started shouting for help.

The judge ordered their release and directed the DSP, the SHO and an ASI to appear before the district and sessions on Tuesday.

OIL THEFT: The personnel of police and Oil and Gas Development Company on Monday averted a major disaster and an attempt to steal oil from the main pipeline.

Reports reaching here said that some thieves vandalised the main pipeline near Hakim Khan Mari village and managed to insert a two inch diameter pipe into a leak in the pipe after the company had to shut down oil supply due to some leak developed in the pipeline.

But the company staff repaired the leak sooner than the thieves might have expected and they knew it when they restored oil supply that the pipe had been tampered with.

The Sinjhoro police and OGDCL staff rushed to the village and found a two-inch pipe inserted into the pipeline and covered by a gunny bag.

The production manager of Bobby oilfield, Mumtaz Soomro, told journalists that they would lodge an FIR against the thieves. Te pipeline had a very high pressure and it could have proved disastrous if anyone had attempted to puncture it, he cautioned.