Incidents of robberies have increased by 25 percent in different areas of the city compared to the previous year, City 42 reported.
According to the report, a burglary took place in Garden Town at Barkat Market, where two robbers took Rs 30,000 in cash and other valuables from a citizen forcibly at gunpoint and escaped.
In another incident, a robbery took place in a house in Faisal Town C-Block, where three robbers forced their way into a house and stole jewellery, thousands of rupees in cash and other valuables. One burglar was apprehended while two managed to escape.
Separately, two robbers stopped a citizen named Javaid while he was going to his house, and took Rs 50,000 in cash and his mobile phone at gunpoint. At the FCC underpass, two armed motorcyclists waylaid Ahmed Fayyaz and Usman Farooq. The criminals took off with their mobile phones and money. In Defence FF Sector, four robbers took away Rs 3 million in cash and jewellery worth hundreds of thousands from the house of Mian Ellahi. Meanwhile, Garden Town police nabbed a gang of robbers and recovered cash, mobile phones as well as illegal weapons from their possession. During the preliminary interrogation, the gangsters confessed to nine incidents of burglary in various parts of the city. A special police team led by the SPO Garden Town arrested Ikramul Haq alias Kamoo and his two accomplices, Shahbaz and Imran.
