LAHORE: The Punjab Police have dismissed three policemen and suspended another for allegedly implicating Lahore Dry Port Customs Principal Appraiser Malik Azizur Rehman in a murder case.
Official sources claimed that Aziz was implicated in the murder case because he had exposed a Rs 1.5 billion tax evasion scam against a trading company, Ikram International. Later, the company owner allegedly bribed policemen to register a fake murder case against the appraiser.
The police arrested Rehman on his way to Lahore Dry Port from Gujranwala and locked him in Kot Ladha Police Station.
Later, Customs Appraisement Collector Muhammad Zahid Khokhar wrote a letter to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and to the senior police officers for investigations into the matter.
On investigation, the Punjab Police found four policemen of Kot Ladha Police Station guilty of taking bribe to implicate the appraiser. Three policemen have been dismissed and another suspended in the case.
The Kot Ladha Police had arrested Rehman in a murder case that occurred in 2005.
