GUJRAT: The AntiC o r r u p t i o n Establishment (ACE) claimed to have arrested five government officials, including a Grade-17 officer, during a crackdown on bribery across the Gujranwala region.
The arrested officials include Assistant Secretary General of the Press Board Office, Gujranwala, Muhammad Masood Ali, a Grade-17 officer.
A spokesman for the Gujranwala ACE headquarters said a team raided the Press Board Office and caught the officer red-handed while allegedly receiving a bribe.
The raiding team re covered Rs30,000 from the official, who had allegedly received the amount from a complainant.
The ACE Gujranwala circle registered a case against the suspect and launched an investigation.
In separate raids inGujrat and Gujranwala, ACE teams also arrested UC-59 secretary Tariq Mehmood and three clerks of the transport and land revenue departments for allegedly receiving bribes from citizens.
TWO KILLED: Two youths were killed and another was critically injured in a collision between two motorbikes near Mungowal Shargi village of Gujrat on Saturday night.
Rescue officials said that the motorcyclists collided head-on and Shahbaz (35) of Bhagowal and Ahmed (17) of Lakhanwal were killed on the spot due to fatal head injury.
A 14-year-old boy identified as Abdullah was critically injured in the accident.
The injured boy, they said, was unconscious due to a head injury.
The dead and the injured had been shifted to the Jalalpur Jattan Civil Hospital, where the condition of the injured was said to be critical.