Seven arrested in police raid on Karachi’s Abbasi Shaheed hospital

Officials seized computer hard drives, laptops, other documents from the hospital's IT department

KARACHI: Seven people were arrested by police on Tuesday from the city's Abbasi Shaheed hospital during a search operation in the area.

A large contingent of law enforcers surrounded the locality and also searched apartments housing medical staff and several rooms in the hospital - including the trauma centre.

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The law enforcers took care to hide the names of police stations, code numbers and vehicle registration plates with the help of tape to conceal identities of personnel involved in the search operation.

 

During the raid, the officials also searched the room of the hospital's IT department administrator Najaf Ali and seized computer hard drives, laptops and other documents.

The search operation lasted an hour and a half and detained four persons, as well as the hospital's PRO Sheikh Arshad Hussain, Arshad Hashmat and Aslam Pervez and shifted them to an undisclosed location.