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Punjab Reports Large-Scale Eid Security, Arrests and Record Clean‑Up

Officials say mass deployments and strict enforcement reduced Eid‑period violations while forensic tests and a landowner complaint remain unresolved.

Overview

  • Punjab Police were placed on high alert and posted extra personnel to mosques, parks, eidgahs and sensitive sites during the Eid holidays, officials said.
  • Law enforcement registered hundreds of arrests and cases: Lahore authorities reported about 189 arrests and 152 cases over the holiday, and 74 people were held in 24 hours for illegal collection of sacrificial hides with 64 cases filed.
  • The province’s Suthra Punjab sanitation drive said it collected more than 376,000 tonnes of waste and animal remains over Eid and announced cash rewards for frontline workers.
  • City authorities launched targeted safety moves, including a CTO-ordered crackdown on underage driving, triple riders and unlicensed drivers that includes fines and vehicle seizures.
  • Several incidents remain under active inquiry: hospital and police samples in an alleged poisoning of TikToker Hakeem Babar have been sent for forensic testing, a Chakwal landowner has lodged a complaint about an alleged night‑time police seizure, and separate theft and missing‑children cases were resolved by police.