VE H A RI: The district police claim to have arrested three robbers involved in a murder after one year of the incident.

DPO Sadiq Ali Dogar told a press conference on Tuesday that Sajjad Javed, son of Lahore`s Punjab Cooperative Society resident Rana Javed Iqbal, along with Waleed Arshad and Imran (of Vehari), hired a carry van from Khanewal Chowk on Nov 1 last year from Muhammad Mustafa, a retired army official. He said the gangsters told van driver Mustafa to head for Lahore, where they wanted to purchase a sound system and that they would return to Vehari the very next day.

The DFO said the robbers instead killed the driver and threw his body in the Lahore Canal which police recovered and sent to the mortuary of Jinnah Hospital.

Just two days ago, police handed over the body of the deceased to his family and he was laid to rest. A police team led by Sadd ar DSP Nasrullah Warraich traced the gangsters and arrested them, also recovering the vehicle they had driven away af ter killing the driver.

The DPO said one of the arrested persons (Sajjad) was the son of a protocol officer at the LHC and all three of them had confessed to crime. Correspondent