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Punjab government hit with yet another unwarranted scandal

Punjab government hit with yet another unwarranted scandal

*LAHORE – PTI government hit with yet another unwarranted scandal inLahore.*

*Punjab Minister Mahmoodur Rasheed’s vehicle was reportedly used inkidnapping case of policemen.*

*As per the media report, officials vehicle was used in the Lahorepolicemen kidnapping case, the police said on Thursday. *

Two police constables, Usman Saeed and Usman Mushtaq, were kidnapped fromGhalib Market on Tuesday.

According to the FIR, the constables had stopped a car after itspassengers, a man and a woman, were caught behaving ‘unethically’. Thewoman called her friends, who came in two vehicles and kidnapped theconstables after beating them up.

Mahmoodur Rasheed denied involvement in the case. He said that the vehicleinitially stopped by the police wasn’t his. His son, Hasan Rasheed, hadgone to help his friends after the police asked for a bribe, he remarked.