Tag: street crimes

  • Daily Crime Report: Is Lahore a safe place? Upsurge in street crime troubles Lahore

    Daily Crime Report: Is Lahore a safe place? Upsurge in street crime troubles Lahore

    It may be due to political anarchy or disability, or you can say negligence of institutes. But Lahore is not safe for roaming around late at nights or even in broad day light.

    Mobile snatchers, purse snatchers, dacoits, thieves, are everywhere and the looters are eerily common now.
    Moreover, the city’s residents feel that the Punjab Police is either devoid of solutions to curb the rising crime rate or simply does not care.

    A citizen Waqas living in Sundar has been robbed inside his office. Thieves looted Rs500,00 and mobile phone. Jahanzeb, resident of Iqbal Town, got robbed in broad day-light when dacoits snatched over Rs 2 lacs and other belongings from him.

    “it is very easy purchase illegal weapon in Punjab. If the citizen retaliates, he will be shot by dacoits so everyone protects his life first.”

    Thousands of rupees from Azam’s fast food shop in Factory area, Rs44 thousand and mobile phone from Hamza in Ichhra, Rs31 thousand and mobile phone from Yusuf in Chung, Rs35 thousand from Khalil in Iqbal Town, Rs55 thousand from Yasin in Mustafa Town, Rs65 thousand from Ghazanfar Ali in Johar Town along with mobile phone, Rs 65 thousand from Atiq Ahmed of Ravi Road.

    A resident of Shalimar was robbed of belongings worth Rs 11 lacs when robbers rushed into his house.

    With all of these street crimes, 7 cars and dozens of bikes reportedly got stolen from Gulberg area, Shahdara Town, Faisal Town, Badami Bagh or Litton Road.

    Police have no clue yet, on the cars and bikes which got stolen from different areas of Lahore.

  • Police chief advises Karachiites not to resist robbers during mugging

    Police chief advises Karachiites not to resist robbers during mugging

    Additional Inspector General of Police Jawed Alam Odho has advised the residents of Karachi to not resist robbers if they are being held up.

    The police chief’s statement has come forward during a press briefing in Karachi on the killing of a young man in a mugging incident.

    On Thursday, two robbers shot dead a 21-year-old student — Bilal Nasir — of the NED University of Engineering and Technology.

    During the mugging bid, Bilal succeeded in getting hold of one of the robbers, but the robber opened fire from close range. The youth was shot in his chest and leg, killing him on the spot.

    Police have managed to arrest one suspect in Bilal’s killing—Nizamuddin. According to Odho, the suspect is a teenager, an Afghan who has been illegally living in Karachi.

    Odho remarked that this year, the situation of robbery, dacoity, and street crime had remained “stable” with an overall increase of 7 per cent.

    He also said that in 2022, 518 people were severely injured or killed during street crimes. However, in 2021, the figure was 522.

  • ‘Almost impossible to convict the elite’, Pakistanis angry kay Shahrukh Jatoi ko reha kia jaye ga

    ‘Almost impossible to convict the elite’, Pakistanis angry kay Shahrukh Jatoi ko reha kia jaye ga

    The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday acquitted Shahrukh Jatoi and others in Shahzeb Khan’s murder case.

    Shahzeb was murdered in Karachi in 2012.

    An Anti-Terrorism Court handed Jatoi a death sentence in 2013. However, in 2017, the complainant side had ‘pardoned’ Jatoi under the country’s Qisas and Diyat law.

    The hearing at the apex court was headed by a three-judge bench that included Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice Munib Akhtar, and Justice Ijazul Ahsan.

    The son of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Aurangzeb Khan, the 20-years-old Shahzeb Khan was shot and killed at Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority on December 24, 2012. He was returning home from a wedding with his sister.

    Shahzeb was slain after he got into an altercation with one of the suspects’ servants who had verbally threatened and tormented his sister.

    Twitter users are expressing their anger over the acquittal of Shahrukh Jatoi.

  • Assistant commissioner robbed at gunpoint in Karachi

    Assistant commissioner robbed at gunpoint in Karachi

    Assistant Commissioner Ferozabad Asma Batool was robbed at gunpoint in Karachi.

    The incident took place near Chaar Minar Chowrangi, Bahadurabad, on Monday morning.

    The police said Asma Batool had come along with her family for breakfast and she was robbed while going back.

    According to the police, the suspects looted the assistant commissioner at gunpoint. There were no security guards accompanying Batool at the time of the robbery.

    A case has been registered and an investigation started.
    As per a report published by Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), almost 235 incidents of street crimes are reported in the city on daily basis.

  • Phone snatching: if you aren’t a Karachi resident, you can’t resell phone in the city

    Phone snatching: if you aren’t a Karachi resident, you can’t resell phone in the city

    In order to discourage mobile phone snatching in Karachi, the Karachi Electronic Dealers Association (KEDA) have decided to ban any non-Karachiite from selling mobile device in the city. Only people with Karachi addresses on their CNICs will be able to resell mobile phones at the city’s electronics market

    KEDA President Mohammad Rizwan Irfan said the decision has been taken in response to a sharp increase in local mobile phone snatching incidents.

    “The new SOPs have been devised in consultation with the police and the CPLC in order to control the rising cases of mobile theft,” said Rizwan, adding that 100-120 million mobile phones have been seized since 2016.

    Talking to a local news publication, Chairman KEDA’s Law & Order Committee Hamza Memon said, “From now on, no shopkeeper will buy a mobile phone without a copy of the identity card.”

    “Over one million stolen mobile phones have been handed over to the authorities in the past three years by shop owners,” he added.

  • Man kills robber in an attempted robbery

    Man kills robber in an attempted robbery

    A man in Karachi fought back against robbers near Qalandria Chowk area of Nazimabad and killed one of the robbers on Thursday, reports Samaa News.

    According to the eye-witnesses, three robbers came on two motorcycles to loot a man. However, he took his licensed gun out and opened fire at them. One robber was killed and another was wounded. The third robber managed to escape from the scene.

    Police reached the site and recovered the gun from the scene. Police have sent the weapon for forensic analysis to find if it was used in another crime scene.

    https://twitter.com/ahmerrehmankhan/status/1499362984291938313

    The video went viral on social media, in which the wounded and dead robbers can be seen surrounded by people.

    Street crimes have been increasing in Karachi since January this year in which at least 18 people had lost their lives. Recently, journalist Athar Mateen was also killed while preventing a robbery attempt.

  • Over 50,000 street crime incidents reported in Karachi in 2021

    More than 50,000 incidents of street crime have been reported in Karachi during the first eight months of 2021, ARY news reported.

    According to the police, most of the street crime incidents involved motorcycle snatching, followed by mobile snatching and vehicle snatching incidents.

    During the first eight months of 2021, muggers snatched 34,181 motorcycles, 14,578 mobile phones, and 1,268 four-wheeler vehicles in the city during the ongoing year.

    The officials said that 54 people lost their lives while 458 people got injured due to street crimes in the city.

    Earlier, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah was informed during a law and order meeting that street crimes have seen a 30 per cent decline in August.

    Responding to the decline, the chief minister said he wanted complete abolition of street crimes in the city.

  • Madadgar 15 cop turns out to be street criminal

    Madadgar 15 cop turns out to be street criminal

    Police arrested a Madadgar 15 cop who was involved in street crimes in Karachi.  

    As per reports, the Shah Faisal police arrested Madadgar 15 cop, Aqeel and his two partners after an inquiry was done against the suspect.

    The police took an action against the cop after numerous complaints were reported by several citizens.

    The police also recovered one pistol, three mobile phones and a wallet from their possession. Police also filed a FIR against the gang.

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    There has been a sharp increase in robbery incidents in Karachi. Earlier, a gang posing as officials of the police’s special branch robbed the house of the mother of ex-Karachi commissioner.

    The muggers posing as the police officials managed to enter the house of the mother of former Karachi commissioner, Sohail Rajput and looted cash and other valuables.

  • Sharp increase in street crimes reported in Lahore

    Sharp increase in street crimes reported in Lahore

    Lahore witnessed a sharp increase in street crime as more than three dozen cases of robbery and theft were reported during the last 24 hours in several parts of the city.

    According to the reports, five houses were robbed while 15 citizens were looted in incidents of street crime. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nephew Shershah Khan was also among those looted during a house robbery.

    While the city witnessed a surge in crime during the last one month, crimes were gradually increasing with every passing day which is evident from the fact that the criminals deprived families and citizens of valuables in 36 hits for 24 hours or so.

    The Dolphin Squad, the Police Response Unit and other units of the city police took least interest in their responsibilities because of a lack of resources including proper vehicles for patrolling.

    According to the FIR registered by Shershah, three unidentified armed men broke into his house at 3 am by scaling the boundary walls. He said his wife and daughter were alone at that time. The suspects held his wife hostage, looted an expensive mobile phone, eight gold bangles, cash and a pistol worth over Rs1.1 million and escaped the scene.

    It was further stated in the FIR that the criminals also forced his wife to issue a cheque of Rs3 million.

    In another case, three armed men went into the residence of Waqar Ahmed and robbed the valuables amounting to Rs2.1m.

    Similarly, thieves unlocked the house of Rashid Mahmood
    in Qureshi Mohallah and took away jewellery, cash and other valuables worth
    over Rs2.2m.

    Many such incidents were reported in the areas
    of Ghaziabad, Shahdara, Lower Mall, Gujjarpura, Badami Bagh, Sabzazar, Nawab
    Town, Garden Town, Nishtar Colony, Nawankot, Sanda etc.