Tribal chief claims he is being politically victimised. Reuters/File
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Kandhkot on Wednesday remanded Sardar Teghu Khan Teghani in police custody for seven days.
Teghani was booked under clauses of the Anti Terrorism Act and Pakistan Penal Code for harbouring dacoits and abetting criminals against police after the May 23 murders of three people, including two policemen, by a gang of dacoits inside the riverine area of Khanpur in Shikarpur district.
He was later arrested from the Gulistan-i-Jauhar area of Karachi along with half a dozen other family members and servants and was shifted to Shikarpur to bring his arrest on record officially.
After losing several cops and civilians at the hands of the dacoits in districts of Larkana division, the Sindh government says it is launching a decisive operation
KARACHI: The Shikarpur police on Monday claimed to have arrested a tribal chief and his two sons from Karachi for allegedly patronising kidnappers in the katcha area.
Recently, an encounter in the katcha area between police and kidnappers claimed lives of two policemen and a police photographer.
A police spokesperson said that the Shikarpur police in collaboration with local police conducted a raid in Gulistan-i-Jauhar and arrested Sardar Tegho Khan Teghani along with his two sons Imran and Abdul Fatah.
These arrests were made after lodging of an FIR at the Napar Kot police station in Shikarpur against nominated kidnappers over charges of terrorism and murder of three policemen during the May 23 operation.