KARACHI: The city police on Monday arrested two ‘most-wanted’ suspects near Karachi’s Paposh Nagar graveyard on charges of renting weapons from the City Courts’ (warehouse) to commit crimes.
According to details, Shahrah-i-Noorjahan Police conducted a raid near the graveyard and arrested the suspects, identified as Shaharyar alias Masoom Bengali and Saeed.
The raiding team also recovered weapons from their possession. “The suspects made startling disclosures during initial interrogation,” SSP Central Malik Murtaza informed.
The suspects told police they had been getting weapons from the City Courts’ warehouse on rent in the past as well, and a man named Khalil used to provide them weapons for a limited period in return for Rs8,000 per weapon.
On Khalil’s directives, the suspects had also conducted the reconnaissance of officials coming to the City Courts and provided “tips” as well. “They had also conducted the reconnaissance of an officer of K-Electric in Central district on the directions of Khalil,” SSP added.
SSP Murtaza said, “Khalil had previously been handed death sentence in a case, but he was later acquitted and released.” He further said the held suspects’ other accomplices had “links with Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London.”
SSP Murtaza further said that the arrested suspects had committed house robberies in Iqbal Market of Orangi Town and Surjani Town recently. Shaharyar was also involved in a robbery in which Rs60 million was stolen from Hyderabad.
