MULTAN: The police are looking into a brawl between PTI MPA from Muzaffargarh Khurram Sohail Leghari and a group of people in Multan on Wednesday.

Mr Leghari lodged an FIR with the Gulgasht Police that Sheikh Hameed and others had been providing drugs and prostitutes to his brother Umar Leghari at a farmhouse of Hameed on Bahadurpur Road for quite some time.

On Wednesday, he along with three others went to the farmhouse and found his brother and Hameed using drugs there.

He said Hameed held him on gunpoint, beat him and his companions and snatched his Rs36,000.

The police lodged an FIR under section 342/506-B and 379 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Another FIR was also lodged by the investigation officer in whichInvestigation Officer Muhammad Ijaz stated that he was on police patrol when he was alerted about the presence of Hameed at his f armhouse and when the police raided the farmhouse, Hameed fled leaving 50 grams of ice (crystal methamphetamine) at the scene.

Police lodged another case against Hameed under section 9(a) of the Control of Narcotics Substances Act 1997.

In a related incident, a third FIR was also lodged with the Alpa Police Station where complainant Muhammad Imran, of Qadeerabad, stated that his brother Muhammad Ishaq Baloch was going to drop his daughters to the Bahauddin Zakariya University. He stated that soon his brother entered the university, a double cabin vehicle, being driven by Abubakar Afridi, coming from the opposite side hit the car of Umar Leghari (who was also being chased by Afridi) which also hit the bike of his brother injuring thethree riders.

The injured father and his both daughters were admitted to the hospital.

Sources told Dawn though the MPA lodged the complaint against Afridi with the police, his brother and Afridi went to the university in separate vehicles.

They said that both vehicles were racing on the wrong sides of university roads which caused the accident.

They said that when the PMA became aware of the incident, he pressurized the police to lodge his FIR and also arrest Afridi. The police made a call to Afridi while the FIR was yet to be lodged.

They said when Afridi came to the police station, a habeas corpus petition was filed with the court and soon a bailiff arrived at the pouce station to recover Afridi and subsequently, he was allowed to leave the police station.

DSP Humayoon Iftikhar said the matter was being investigated.