After eight armed robberies in different branches of private banks located in different areas of the city, robbers have started targeting post offices now. Robbers looted Rs 400,000 from a post office located in Rehmanpura in the Wahdat Colony Police precincts on Thursday in
broad daylight.
Two robbers equipped with sophisticated weapons entered the post office and held two officials and a peon on gunpoint. Robbers looted Rs 400,000, which locals had deposited in the post office against their utility bills, and fled.
Post office officials later on informed the police, who collected circumstantial evidences and recorded statements of eye witnesses and post office officials and started an investigation after registering a case against two robbers.
Iqbal Town Police SP Muntazir Mehdi said they have registered a case (FIR#529) on the complaint of Post Master Ilyas Virak and have started investigating the matter. He said they had repeatedly instructed post office officials to recruit private security guards for protection but did not bother. He said officials were of the point of view that they could not afford security guards. He said even the post office door was left open by the officials showing negligence in their duties. He said the incident could not be termed as similar to the incidents of bank robberies. He said this was more like a street crime incident. He said any criminal could escape easily after looting valuables from such a place. Post office officials told the media that they had requested the south Lahore post master general for providing security to them but their requests and letters were left unheard.
