TAXILA: A Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police official was caught smuggling narcotics from his province to Punjab during checking on Rawalpindi-Kohat road in the limits of Injra police station on Tuesday.
According to Police spokesman, a team of Injra police led by SHO Munawar Khan intercepted a car coming from KP and during search recovered 1.2kg high quality hashish wrapped with the body of the driver of the car who was identified as Masood Usman- an official of KP police posted at police station Gambat of Kohat district.
During preliminary interrogation, the suspect confessed that he used to smuggle narcotics from KP to various parts of Punjab.
Injra police have registered a case against the police official under section 9-C of control of narcotics substance act 1997 and launched further investigation.
Published in Dawn, February 28th, 2024
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