FAISALABAD – The centuries-old method of tracking down offenders with the help of their footprints found at the scenes of crimes is valid even today to catch dacoit gangs provided footprint experts are ensured security by the police,” say the two renowned Khojis (footprint experts) of Faisalabad.
“We can trace the notorious gangs involved in serious crimes if we have police protection,” said Mashooq Ali from Chak No. 83 JB and Atta Muhammad from Chak No 246 RB in their joint statement. “We have saved in our minds the record of Khura (footprint) of all the gangsters of the area,” said the pair. “This leads to a grave risk to our lives from these gangs who threat Khojis not to name them in the crimes,” said the duo.
“It is ironical that police very often take our services for a particular incident, but we are neither provided with fees nor transportd. “Instead, we are at a constant risk of life from the gangsters for revealing their names,” they said. “In the past, the Khojis were on the payrolls of police and their expertise led to resolve many complex cases,” said Mashooq Ali.
“The services of the late Muhammad Hussain Khoji were hired by Faisalabad police but after his death they have not contracted any one in his place,” said Khoji Atta Muhammad. “We, as khojis, have a plenty of information about the glaring incidents but due to security threats from the gangs we are forced to bury the matters in our bosoms like police personnel,” they admitted.
They said the innate ability to read the Khura (footprint) is an instinctive technique gifted by Allah. They claimed that khojis could discover the blind murder cases and other big crimes. They said if the government paid them reasonable fees and provide facilities, they could prove more useful than police investigators. BROTHEL RAIDED – Police arrested a prostitute along with her accomplices after raiding her house where a sex party was in progress.
Sargodha Road Police Station Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Sohail Ahmed was tipped off that a prostitute Naseem Akhtar was serving a group of clients at her house in Jameelabad Chowk, Abbas Park. When the police raided the house, a sex party was in progress and they arrested the accused Naseem Akhtar, Usman, Naveed, Tariq, Akbar, Ali Raza, Ameen and Tahir Saleem red handed.
In another incident, Civil Lines police raided a hotel at Sargodha Road and caught four prostitutes in compromising condition with their clients in different rooms. Woman gang-raped: A group of three dacoits entered a house and gang-raped a woman after looting her cash money.
The victim, Ayesha Bibi, a resident of street No 5 in Mansoorabad, reported that the accused Nawaz along with his two armed accomplices entered her house when she was alone. She said the accused gang-raped her one by one at gunpoint, took away Rs 5,000 from her house and fled away.
Mobile phone tower’s batteries stolen: A group of armed robbers hit two mobile phone towers of some private cell phone companies, removed battery units worth Rs 200,000 and escaped. Reportedly, some thieves overpowered Nazir Ahmed, a watchman at a mobile phone tower in Thikriwala, and took away the batteries of the tower. The same group hit another tower in the same area and stole its batteries. Meanwhile, some robbers stopped a motorcyclist, Mushtaq Ahmed, near a mobile phone tower, snatched his wallet and a mobile phone from him and escaped.
Faisalabad gets new fitness club: Divisional Commissioner Tahir Hussain inaugurated a smart health and fitness club in Sitara Malls in the vicinity of D-Ground Faisalabad. Addressing the inaugural ceremony, the commissioner said the club would cater to the overall needs of health-conscious community, providing them with the-state-of-the art and high tech health and fitness facilities.
He added the modern machinery had been provided by the club management which was a healthy trend for the promotion of quality gym activities to maintain good health. The opening ceremony was attended by Chief Executive Mian Muhammad Idrees, Chief Operating Officer Ali Syed, Sitara Group Chairman Haji Bashir Ahmad, Muhammad Gulzar Sabri and people from all segments of the society.
Mian Idrees and Ali Syed reaffirmed their commitment to provide the world class facilities at nominal and competitive charges to promote health awareness in the community. More branches of the club would be established in Multan, Lahore and Sialkot, he said, adding that the play land of international standard would be set up by April 15 and the work was already in progress for that purpose.
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