KARACHI: Police are snap checking vehicles at the Sindh Punjab border after they received a tip off that Sindh High Court Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah’s son Owais Ali Shah will be transferred to a different location.
According to reports, on the federal government’s directives police installed checkpoints at the Sindh-Punjab border on Friday. Police said kidnappers may transfer Owais Ali Shah out of Sindh donned in female clothing.
Checkpoints were installed at Sindh-Punjab border areas; Kot Sabzal and Daud Wala. Vehicles traveling from Sindh to Punjab are being checked.
According to police, three SHOs, 12 female police officers and 40 policemen have been deployed on guard duties. “Every eight hours a new contingent is deployed,” police said.
Security forces are conducting search operations in Karachi every day in a bid to find leads to the kidnapping case.
Rangers on Friday raided Karachi Water Board’s residential colony in Dhabeji and arrested eight suspects belonging to a political party, sources said.
Police arrested a suspected terrorist belonging to a banned organization from Federal Industrial area in Karachi.
The suspects were reportedly also involved in target killing incidents.
An eight member committee which includes two DIGs is investigating the kidnapping of Owais Ali Shah.