MUZAFFARGARH: The police have claimed to have rounded MNA Jamshed Dasti’s brother and two others on charges of theft and smuggling of timber from Muzaffargarh district on Sunday.
As per police reports, the Jamshed’s elder brother Mustaq Dasti and his two associates were engaged in illegal cutting off trees when the Civil Lines police arrived at the scene and caught the culprits red-handed, on the information received by the forest guard.
The police also stated that the illegally cut timber was confiscated.
Subsequently, a large number of locals took to protest against the arrest of the lawmaker’s brother outside the Civil Lines Police Station
As per police a report, a case has been lodged against the accused who are suspects in a number of other cases relating to theft of government-owned timber.