A police investigation has revealed theft of Rs4 million from the police warehouse in Alipur, a sub district of Muzzafargarh.
Following this District Police Officer Zeeshan Asghar has ordered DSP (Legal) Rana Abdur Razzaq to probe the matter. He has also sought a report from him within a week and constituted a committee to supervise the probe.
DPO Asghar had ordered the investigation last week after Sohail Gopang, who was appointed in charge of the warehouse six months ago, ordered an audit of the record and soon afterwards pointed out a forgery in record and theft from the warehouse.
He had said that under his predecessor, ASI Ghulam Yaseen, who had served in the position for three years, records concerning 30 Kalashnikovs, 30 rifles, 1,000 pistols, rocket launchers, 1,000 rounds and bullets of Kalashnikov rifles, hashish, heroine, cocaine, opium, and gold and silver jewellery had been tampered with. These included weapons and narcotics confiscated from criminals, he said. The audit report also suggested that narcotics worth Rs0.8 million on the street had been misplaced.
He said some of the entries for weapons were overwritten or covered with white chits. Items of low value such as loud speakers were mentioned on these chits. The DPO has summoned ASI Yaseen to his office on Wednesday to explain the overwriting.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 30th, 2012.
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