RAWALPINDI: The district police have booked as many as 32 persons including the owners of two private housing societies on charges of murdering a man during an armed clash at Rawalpindi’s Pindh Malhu.
According to details, the case was registered on the complaint of Hamid Ali, the uncle of deceased, under sections 302/148/149 against Chaudhry Nahim Ijaz, Chaudhry Naim Ijaz, Usman, Bilal, Asim Nazir and 27 other unknown criminals.
In this regard, City Police Officer (CPO) Muhammad Ahsan Younas has formed special police teams to arrest the culprits, according to a police spokesman.
Hamid Ali lodged the complaint with Police Station (PS) Chontra stating he along with two of his friends was travelling back to his village when he spotted his nephew Taimoor Khawar while sitting in another car along with his two friends Bilal and Usman.
“I stopped my car to talk with my nephew when he and his two other friends also stepped down from their car in the premises of a private housing society,” he said adding that in the meanwhile an intense battle broke out between Asim Nazir gang and Chaudhry Nadim Ijaz gang.
He told police his nephew sustained a bullet injury after coming into range of cross firing and fell on the ground. “We rushed him to hospital but he died in the way,” he mentioned.
