Overview
- During the Eid holidays Punjab Police increased deployments across the province and said teams arrested dozens to hundreds of suspects for offences including illegal collection of sacrificial skins, one‑wheeling, kite flying and celebratory firing.
- Unit tallies varied by office but public statements cited numbers such as 74 arrests for illegal hides, 189 total detentions in Lahore operations and 133 long‑wanted fugitives held by the Investigation Branch.
- Lahore Investigation Police said they solved a Defence B jewellery theft by arresting a domestic worker and her fiancé and recovering jewellery valued at Rs 6.5 million.
- Local reports described multiple police encounters in several districts during the holidays that left several alleged robbers dead after exchanges of fire, according to district and police sources.
- Separately, provincial cleanup teams reported record Eid waste collection under the Suthra Punjab drive while a Chakwal landowner has publicly alleged a nighttime police land seizure that police had not publicly answered at the time of reporting.