FAISALABAD – A group of thieves, posing as Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) employees, stole three transformers from separate places. The transformers were stolen from Samanabad, Guttwala and Madina Town while FESCO has failed to trace the gang. An average transformer costs Rs 500,000 while the thieves are strealing them just to dismantle the unit and take out the copper wire from it.
The sources said the copper wire of each transformer was sold in scrap market for a maximum sum of Rs 50,000. The local police are unable to track down the scrap dealers who were buying the copper from these gangs.
HEROIN SEIZED: Sandal Bar police seized four-kg heroin worth Rs 800,000 as the drug smugglers escaped after the police encounter. Reportedly, a police party asked two suspects on a motorcycle at a police barrier near Chak No 32/JB to stop for identification. Instead of stopping, they opened fire. As the police retaliated, the suspects escaped on foot leaving behind their motorcycle and four-kg heroin.
2 LAPTOPS STOLEN FROM CARS: Thieves smashed the window glasses of tow cars and took away two laptops and other valuables lying in the vehicles in two incidents.
In the first incident, a citizen Muhammad Saleem reported to the police that unknown thieves stole a laptop from his car parked in D-Ground, People’s Colony.
In the second incident, Amer reported to the police that his car parked at Susan Road Madina Town was smashed open by burglars and his laptop and a mobile phone were stolen. The city police have posted watchdogs in plane clothes to monitor the public parking areas, but have failed to check these incidents. Both the incidents that happened in a radius of three kilometers under the similar circumstances appear to be the acts of the same gang.
ROBBERY VICTIMS LOSING FAITH IN POLICE: The increasing number of robberies and inability of the police to nab the offenders has shaken the public faith in police to such an extent that in two latest robbery incidents, the victims refused to lodge even a formal complaint.
In an incident, a dacoit gang snatched a mobile phone and a wallet containing Rs 10,000 from Saeed Hassan at gunpoint in the People’s Colony area. In another incident, dacoits snatched a motorcycle from Javed Iqbal in Mansoorabad. The police from the respective police stations arrived at the scene but the victims did not agree to lodge a complaint or to go to the police station to get an FIR registered, calling it just waste of time as the robbers would not be arrested by the police.
GANG ARRESTED FOR ILLEGAL FUND-RAISING: Sargodha Road police arrested a group of six men for illegally raising funds for a fictitious organisation. Reportedly, the police were called by the residents of Gulistan Colony, complaining that some people representing themselves as the members of Idara Falah-e-Insanyat were knocking at their doors asking for donations.
When the police asked them to stop their activity, they presented the cards of their unknown organisation. However, they could not produce any government permission or NOC) from the government authorities for collecting funds.
