Crackdown: PHP arrest 241 suspects, seize drugs

PHP team also recovered a stolen motorcycle

LAHORE: Punjab Highway Patrol (PHP) claimed to have arrested 241 suspects including 115 POs and seized illegal weapons from their custody. PHP team on receiving information conducted Naka point and recovered a stolen motorcycle. The suspects dropped the motorcycle and managed to escape when they saw the Patrolling Police. Punjab Highway Patrol arrested 115 proclaimed offenders identified as Abbas, Ahamd yar, Ameer Bakhsh, Adnan, M Naveed, Ghulam Abbas, Fazal Khan, Haji Tanvir, Amdad Hussain, Saif Ullah, Bilal Hussain, Imran, Sajjad Hussain, M Yaqoob, M Akhtar, Khuram Shahzad, Shah Muhammad, Shamshad Bibi and Arshad. Two court absconders were also arrested in raids. The PHP team also arrested 75 suspects and recovered 2,270 litres of liquor and 13.405 kilogrammes of hashish from their possession. Illegal weapons including 40 pistols, three riffles, three handguns, three cartages, 10 magazines and 295 bullets from their possession.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 16^th, 2018.