A Grade 17 federal government employee was arrested on Saturday by the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of Lahore Police for allegedly smuggling eight kilograms of hashish from Peshawar to Lahore.
Kotwali CIA Inspector Riaz Shah told Pakistan Today that Saud Nazeer, a Grade 17 officer of the Cabinet Division, and his driver Shahzad were stopped by a CIA team at the Baba Chhatri Wala stop near Data Darbar for checking following information that Nazeer was involved in drug smuggling.
On searching the vehicle, which bore a government registration plate, the CIA team found eight kilograms of hashish from the men’s possession. Inspector Shah said that Nazeer had purchased 80 kilograms of hashish from Peshawar and had sold most of the contraband to his buyers on his way from Peshawar to Lahore. He added that during interrogation, Nazeer confessed that he had made four trips to Peshawar in the last two months from where he used to buy the drugs for onward distribution among his dealers. Shah said that they had handed over the two suspects to the Shafiqabad Police for registration of case after fulfilling the legal procedure. However, sources at the Shafiqabad Police Station told Pakistan Today that SP Multan Khan had refused to register a case against Nazeer, saying that the CIA itself should register the case against the suspects since they had made the arrests.
Commenting on the information, Inspector Shah said that the CIA team had carried out its responsibility and handed over the suspects to the police station concerned. “It is now their duty to move against the suspects…our job was to make the arrests and hand over all evidence against them for registration of a case,” he said.
