QUETTA: MPA Sardar Abdul Rahman Khetran of the JUI-F was arrested on Sunday in connection with a case of torturing policemen.

According to sources close to the Khetran tribe`s chief and former minister, he courted arrest at the Barkhan police station.

But officials said that AntiTerrorism Force personnel had raided the residence of Sardar Khetran in Haji Kot area, arrested him and his six security guards and taken them to a Frontier Corps camp in Barkhan.

They were brought to Quetta in the evening.

The officials said nine noncustoms paid vehicles and a truck loaded with weapons and ammunition had been seized from the house of the tribal chief.