Books meant for schools seized from junk shop

PESHAWAR: The police in Yakatoot locality on Sunday recovered a huge quantity of textbooks meant for free distribution among the students of a government-run school from a junk shop and arrested one person.Police said head of one government -run school had sold out the books against a meager amount. These books had been provided to the school to be distributed among the students free of cost. A police official said the books weighed around 900 kilograms. The owner of the junk shop that collected the books was arrested. Raids are being conducted to arrest the official who had sold out the books.