Atta smuggling bids foiled, heavy quantity of wheat, flour recovered
ATTOCK: Different smuggling bids were foiled by Food department and Attock police while some 121,280 kilogram wheat and 65,400 kg flour was recovered.
Talking to APP, Executive District Officer Revenue Mahmood-ul-Hassan Zia said that different attempts to smuggle wheat and flour were foiled and trucks bearing registration numbers Swat-C1135, Swat-C1781, GTL-450, PKJ-237, JKM-914, GTA-3155, P-3250 and PZ-2799 were seized in this connection.
In various raids, made on Friday night, six trucks in which wheat and flour was being smuggled to NWFP from Punjab through G.T.Road, were seized by Food departed and police.
Eight drivers namely Hayat ullah, Amjid Ali, Muhammad Sharif Khan, Ismail, Sher Ali, Deen Muhammad, Sajjad Ahmed and Abdul Shakoor have also been arrested.
Police have registered cases in this regard and started further investigation.
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