Bahawalpur: Three police officers from the city police station booked, two were arrested for extortion of traders while pretending to be Crime Control Department (CCD) officials, threatening to kill him in the CCD encounter and extorting thousands of rupees from him.
Constables Waqas Yaseen, Rizwan and Umar Daraz were also CCD officials in the area on September 23 in their car and kidnapped CCD officials in the area and kidnapped Salman Khan, according to the office of VEANARI Regional Police. Heroin.
They left him illegally detained in the car and drove on various roads for more than four hours as they asked him to be given Rs 0.5 lakh.
They threatened him that if he didn’t pay, he would be killed in an encounter.
The complainant paid the suspect Rs 74,000 in cash in front of witnesses, while they snatched Rs 9,000 from his pocket and released from Babble near Burewala.
After receiving a complaint against police officers, the DPO asked the city policeman Burewala to register for FIR.
Later, Waqas Yaseen and Rizwan Khan were arrested, who were far behind the lockdown, while Umar Daraz was still spacious.
Posted at Dawn on September 27, 2025
