The FIA Composite Circle team conducted a raid and nabbed the leader of an organised gang involved in using innocent citizens for drug smuggling under the guise of free Umrah.
The accused, Israrullah, was arrested from Mochi Gate, Lahore. He, along with his accomplices, sent a family of five to Saudi Arabia on Umrah visas. The accused deceived the affected family by offering them a free Umrah trip and handed them a bag to take to Saudi Arabia, in which crystal meth (Ice) was secretly hidden.
Upon checking the bag, Saudi authorities found the drugs, leading to the arrest of the entire family.
The accused has been taken into custody, and investigations have begun. Raids are ongoing to nab other individuals involved in the crime.
Meanwhile, a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has been formed in the case of apprehended Corporation Officer (CO) Mujeeb Shami by the Anti-Corruption Department.
Director of Anti-Corruption, Faisalabad Region, Kanwar Khalid, has constituted the JIT for the case. The investigation team includes Assistant Director of Anti-Corruption Sarfraz Warraich, ADI Toba Tek Singh Asif Shah, Circle Officer Jhang Inspector Akhtar Saeed, and CO Faisalabad Imran. The JIT will investigate irregularities in Urban I, Urban II, and the Registry Branch of the Corporation from 2018 to 2022. Initial inquiries have uncovered corruption amounting to Rs. 7.1 million.
The arrested CO is currently in jail, while his arrest in case number 30/24 is still pending.
Separately, police have registered cases against the police station in-charge who tampered with a file of a bogus check case regarding a private employee who pretended to be a police employee. According to the police report, the case filed by the In-charge Investigation Police Station Millat Town Muhammad Saleem has taken the stand that Sub-Inspector Habib-ur-Rehman showed negligence in his duties by tampering with the file of case number 1092/24 Crime 489F.
On this, the Millat Town police registered a case against the SI Rehman under Section 155C-180 of the Police Order 2002 and started searching for him.
The ASP Peoples Colony Fazlur Rehman Safi, who came on a surprise visit at the police station saw a private employee Shahid son of Iqbal, sitting in the interrogation room.
ASI questioned him, and he told that he was a police employee, on which the ASP took him into custody and registered a case against him under Section 419 of the IPC for impersonating a government employee.
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