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Monday, March 10, 2008
Islamabad
The Islamabad Police took into custody 53 people — 19 women and 34 men — including an MNA-elect of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), in the wee hours of Sunday.
A police team conducted a raid on the ‘Cat House’ in Sector F-10/3, and arrested 53 people. Illegal weapons and a huge quantity of liquor were also recovered on the occasion, police said.
A controversy was created when the raiding team arrested participants of the marriage ceremony of a South African, Chukwa Kelly, and Turana Ajiyewa despite they produced proof of their marriage.
Later, police freed PPP leader Abdul Qayyum Jatoi, elected from Muzaffargarh (NA-180), and his friends on the alleged pressure of a powerful political figure.
SSP Syed Kaleem Imam received information that some influential people had been running the ‘Cat House’ at House no. 221, Street 3, Sector F-10/3. The ‘informer’ told him that people go there for liquor and women provided by the owner of the nightclub.
Acting on the tip-off, Syed Kaleem Imam directed DSP (Industrial Area Circle) Farhat Kazmi to take up the case and supervise the raiding team, police said.
DSP Farhat Kazmi and SHO (Shalimar) Ghulam Baqar, along with a heavy contingent of police, conducted a raid on the ‘Cat House’ on Saturday night. The police spokesman said that as many as 53 people, including 19 women, who were dancing and drinking liquor, were shifted to the Shalimar Police Station.
Police took three people — Abdul Qayyum Jatoi (MNA-elect of PPP), son of Nazar Muhammad and his friends, Muhammad Sarfaraz, son of Abdul Qadir, and Muhammad bin Saleh, son of Muhammad bin Umar — to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences for their medical check-up at about 3.15 a.m. Later, all three were released.
SSP Syed Kaleem Imam, when contacted by ‘The News,’ said that the people arrested from outside the ‘Cat House’ were freed after questioning. He said that the MNA-elect was arrested when he was standing outside the house. When asked that nobody, except for the MNA-elect, was released and all of them have been sent to jail, he said, “Let me check.”
The SSP said that police arrested six foreign women — three Chinese and three Russians — among total of 20 belonging to different cities of the country.
He said that Zafar Shahid, an influential person, had been running the ‘brothel’ with the help of powerful people.
Police have registered cases under Sections 371-A+B, 496-B PPC, 14 Foreigners Act, 13/20/65 AO and 3/4 Hadd.
The police spokesman said that the raiding team recovered 66 bottles of liquor, 88 tins of beer as well as one 7-mm gun, one 12-bore gun, three 222 and one 44-bore guns with bullets.
As many as 19 women and 31 men (excluding MNA and his friends) have been shifted to jail and they would be freed after producing bail bonds before the court of law.
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