PTI's Ali Amin Gandapur handed over to police on one-day remand
Gandapur was wanted for stealing ballot boxes during the recently-held LG polls
Ali Amin Gandapur. PHOTO: FILE
DI KHAN:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has been handed over to the police for a one-day remand.
DI Khan police officials had laid siege to his residence, the Gandapur Cottage, in the Hethala area of Kulachi town of DI Khan earlier on Monday. The siege lasted three hours, but Gandapur still managed to escape through the back door of his house.
However, he surrendered himself to the police later at night.
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According to police, vote count was under way in the Hemath Adda polling station on Sunday when Gandapur, his brother Umar (a candidate for tehsil nazim) and his armed supporters arrived on the scene, picked up the ballot boxes and took off with them in the minister’s car.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has been handed over to the police for a one-day remand.
DI Khan police officials had laid siege to his residence, the Gandapur Cottage, in the Hethala area of Kulachi town of DI Khan earlier on Monday. The siege lasted three hours, but Gandapur still managed to escape through the back door of his house.
However, he surrendered himself to the police later at night.
Read: LG polls aftermath: PTI’s Ali Amin Gandapur surrenders to police
According to police, vote count was under way in the Hemath Adda polling station on Sunday when Gandapur, his brother Umar (a candidate for tehsil nazim) and his armed supporters arrived on the scene, picked up the ballot boxes and took off with them in the minister’s car.