Businessman appeals for recovery of looted articles

20 Apr, 2010

Sheikh Abdus Sattar, prominent business man has made a fervent appeal to the chief minister Punjab and IGP Punjab to direct the police concerned to recover his looted goods. "Despite lodging of an FIR, police are deliberately using delaying tactics to recover looted stock and machines from the identified four accused," he told a news conference held at the Lahore Press Club (LPC) on Monday.
Unfolding the facts before the newsmen Sheikh Sattar said, on March 18, 2010 some 20 to 25 persons broke in his factory at Sundar Adda, on Multan road, made the staff hostage and took away precious machines and other items worth Rs 11.5 million from the factory's warehouse and loaded them onto the truck.
He further said that he had lodged an FIR with Manga Police, who were not co-operating, despite identifying outlaws as Arshad and Shahid and others in the FIR. To a question, Sheikh Sattar said the identified dacoits used to work in his factory some years' back, added that he is receiving threatening calls.

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