MIDNIGHT RAID
LEADER OF MOSLEM SECT
ARRESTED
(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)
s DELHI, 29th March. YVhen a party of 150 police, headed by European officers, made a dramatic midnight raid on the Sind fortress in the village of Pir Pacara, the leader of a sect of 1000 Moslems in the Sind and Punjab, they discovered 25 guns, two revolvers and 50,000 rounds of ammunition concealed on the premises in a large box, which Pir refused to open. They found a Moslem boy who had been kidnapped, and whose mother .had been murdered. • V~f . i .
Pir was arrested on charges of mur der and theft.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 March 1930, Page 5
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