30 booked for stealing soil
From Our Correspondent
OKARA: Police have booked 30 people on the charges of digging land and stealing soil.
In the first incident, Ilaqadar Abdul Ghafoor of Chak 5-A/4L Military Farms Okara reported to Sadr police that he was on duty when he saw that 12 people, including Hassan Ali, Asif, Muhammad Faisal, Akram, Abbas, Sardar, Younus and Shahid, were allegedly digging land and loading soil on a tractor-trolley. He said that the accused fled when he reached near them. In the second incident, Abdul Ghafoor reported to the same police that he saw 18 people, including Arshad, Amanat, Shaban and Ali Raza, allegedly digging land and loading soil on their tractor-trolleys in the same village. However, the accused managed to escape.
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