July 20, 2021
KARACHI:Additional Inspector General Farhat Junejo, head of internal accountability bureau of Sindh Police, has been appointed as Inquiry Officer by Sindh Inspector General Mushtaq Mahar, to investigate recovery of big quantities of drugs from Jamshoro Police officials.
On July 18, 2021 (Sunday) six policemen of Jamshoro-based Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) were arrested in Clifton, Karachi along with the 76 kg of Charas found in the police mobile van they were travelling-in, by Pakistan Rangers, Sindh.
According to sources, Pakistan Rangers, Sindh acting on intelligence information made the arrest, recovered a huge quantity of drugs and handed over the suspects to Police Station Boat Basin for further legal proceedings. Sources of the Sindh government informed ‘The News’ that Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Shah directed IGP Mahar to conduct impartial investigations into the alleged involvement of Police official Sarwar Rahpoto, brother of MNA Sikandar Rahp
KARACHI: Six policemen of CIA-Jamshoro were arrested here on Sunday after 76 kilograms of charas was found in the police mobile van they were travelling in, officials said on Sunday.
Sources said that Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, made the arrest in Clifton and handed over the suspect to the Boat Basin police for further legal action.
They said that the police team had brought the drug to Karachi from Jamshoro to sell it to someone in Clifton.
According to the FIR (587/2021) registered at Boat Basin police, acting on a tip-off, a police mobile bearing number plate SPF-684, was stopped. Its driver identified himself as constable Mohammed Yaqub and the person sitting with him as constable Ghulam Abbas. Both of them were in plain clothes while four policemen sitting in the rear portion of the mobile van clad in police uniform. They were identified as Aijaz Ali, Rahib Husain, Ahmed Nawaz and Abdul Hameed.
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