LAHORE (APP): Sargodha police claimed to have seized nine Kalashinkoves, 23 rifles, 444 bore, eight rifles, 223 bore, nine rifles 22 bore, 54 guns 12 bore, three revolvers 32 bore, 182 pistols 30 bore and 2,029 rounds and cartridges and cases have been lodged against the accused during the last month. As many as 144 proclaimed offenders had been arrested in a crackdown while the district police arrested 208 drug dealers and seized 21 kg heroin, 103 kg chars, 3,090 bottles of liquor. DPO Sargodha Ammara Athar said the district police were making efforts to eradicate drugs and other crimes. The district police arrested 208 drug-dealers and seized a running wine making kiln whereas 75 search operations have been conducted under supervision of all SDPOs in different areas of the district in which intelligence branches of police also took part. In these search operations hundreds of houses, shops, plazas, hotels and inns etc were searched whereas thousands of documents of individuals have been verified by bio-metric machine.
(The Nation)
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