BAHAWALPUR:Bahawalpur Police have arrested 17 suspects during various operations carried out over the past 24 hours, recovering a large quantity of liquor, narcotics and an illegal firearm from their possession.
According to a spokesman for Bahawalpur police, teams from Baghdad-ul-Jadeed, Dera Nawab, Khairpur Tamewali and City Hasilpur police stations arrested six suspects involved in liquor trafficking and recovered 215 litres of liquor from their possession.
In separate operations, police from Civil Lines, Baghdad-ul-Jadeed, Abbas Nagar, City Ahmadpur East, Dhor Kot and Qaimpur police stations arrested 10 suspects involved in drug trafficking. During the raids, police recovered 4.990 kilograms of hashish and 283 grams of crystal Ice.
Meanwhile, Civil Lines Police arrested one suspect for illegal possession of weapons and recovered one .32-bore revolver from his possession. Separate cases have been registered against all the arrested suspects, and further investigation is underway.