KARACHI: Malir police on Wednesday claimed to have apprehended a gang of robbers and recovered weapons and valuables from their possession.
According to police sources, SSP Malir had directed action against armed motorcyclists involved in mugging incidents in the area after receiving several complaints against the robbers by the citizens.
A specially-constituted police team subsequently nabbed four members of the gang identified as Arif alias Kala, Humair alias Waseem, Amir and Tofiq.
The police also recovered looted cash mobile phones, pistols and hashish from them. The police have registered FIRs against the suspects and started further investigation.
Separately, Special Investigation Unit police apprehended a wanted criminal during a raid near Karachi’s Noori Shah Baba Shrine.
Police said the robbers were involved in looting passengers in trains, drugs supplying, motorbike lifting and other heinous crimes.
On May 5, Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of Sindh police had arrested a gang of five alleged robbers and recovered three unlicensed pistols, jewellery, mobile phones, cash, and other valuables from their possession.
According to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Irfan Bahadur, the dacoits’ gang was involved in over 100 cases of street crime, bank robberies and other criminal activities. He maintained that the gang usually targeted those who were withdrawing cash from ATM machines or banks.
During an initial probe, the suspects “confessed” to committing house robberies in North Karachi, Ferozabad, Bahadurabad, Aziz Bhatti and Nazimabad areas of the city.
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