Gold jewellery stolen from shrine of Pakistan's Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, manager booked
The Sindh Auqaf Department in Pakistan has booked one of its managers and a private person in the First Information Report (FIR) for allegedly stealing gold and silver jewellery from Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar's shrine.
The case was registered at Sehwan police station, Jamshoro district, on Saturday, a day after Auqaf manager, Muhammad Zubair Baloch, was suspended from his job after serving at the shrine for over 12 years, reported The Express Tribune.
A private employee, Ali Raza Gopang, was also named in the FIR along with Baloch under sections 407, 409, 380, 457, 427 and 34 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), the newspaper reported.
Gopang has not been arrested so far.
He reportedly escaped from the city after the incident was unearthed.
The complainant, Irshad Ali Samo, Auqaf administrator for Sukkur and Larkana divisions, told police that over 57 tolas of gold and 3,133 tolas of silver have been stolen from the shrine’s maalkhana [store], the news channel reported.
He stated that the shrine received 210.6 tolas of gold in a span of almost 20 years from November 22, 2004, to August 17, 2023.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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