OKARA City News

PO killed in Okara encounter

From Our Correspondent

OKARA: A proclaimed offender was killed in an encounter with CIA police here.

According to District Police Officer Muhammad Faisal Rana, police received information that four dacoits were planning to commit a dacoity at Chak 28/2-L. Following the information, police raided the area. Seeing police, the dacoits opened fire on them. Police also retaliated. As a result, one of the four dacoits was killed on the spot while the others fled. The killed dacoit was later identified as proclaimed offender Ajmal alias Ajmali of Chak 4/D near Hujra Shah Moqeem. The killed PO was wanted by police in several cases. Police handed over the body of the PO to his family after an autopsy. However, police claimed that the PO was killed by the firing of his accomplices.

75 VILLAGERS BOOKED: Seventy-five villagers were booked for resisting police raid against narcotics dealers and outlaws at Chak 45/3R.

Cantonment police raided the village to arrest outlaws. When the police reached there, Asghar started raising hue and cry. It attracted the villagers, including Khuhsi Muhammad, Arshad, Fakhar, Liaqat, Akhtar, Imran, James Masih, Safdar, Javed and Sagheer, and they blocked village streets and bazaars by parking their tractor-trolleys and resisted arrest of the outlaws. Police, however, succeeded to recover narcotics from the village.