Unidentified dacoits made a clean sweep at life saving drugs warehouse located in thickly populated area and fled away after loading precious medicines worth more then Rs 20 million in two trucks in at least six hours labour while police remained fail in tracing two heavy trucks despite informing them about dacoity after a few minutes of the event, said witnesses.
Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association (PCDA) has strongly condemned police negligence and its failure in tracing two heavy trucks, which freely and independently reached to their secure destination with out any hurdles.
The association held police responsible for this high level robbery and threatened for complete shutter down if Police did not apprehend the dacoits.
Medicine dealer Azhar Baloch said about 10 to 11 persons riding two trucks reached at his life saving drugs warehouse situated near chowk by-pass on Multan-Bosan Road at 11:30 pm on Saturday while one of them jumped from wall and fastened the watchman and others with ropes at gunpoint.
Later, the dacoits calmly started loading costly medicines include injections, tablets, capsules in trucks and left the warehouse at about 5:30am after completing the bid in six hours with out any interruption, he said.
The night watchman quickly informed the warehouse owners on his mobile who informed Rescue 15 but police remained fail in tracing trucks.
This was the second biggest medicine dacoity after Rahimyar Khan when dacoits deprived a medicine dealer Abdul Hayee from millions of rupees drugs. Gulgasht police SHO Mehr Waseem, however, did not confirm estimate of stolen medicines and said the company staff was maintaining the stock for establishing the estimate.
South Punjab PCDA chairman Akhtar Butt strongly condemned police negligence and said police have failed to protect medicine dealers, protecting their supplies in South Punjab. Butt said that dacoits, robbers have clutched the entire South Punjab in their grip and the medicine dealers were feeling critical insecurity.
He said the dacoits took away valuable and costly medicines by leaving cheap syrups and police were informed timely but they failed tracing the two heavy trucks. The heavy trucks can travel on roads instead of narrow streets but police showed traditional negligence, remained fail in chasing trucks despite their vigilance and establishing check posts on Bosan Road.