KARACHI, April 4: A suspected bandit was shot dead and his two accomplices were wounded in North Nazimabad on Friday, in what the police claimed an encounter.
Sulaiman after drawing cash from Bank Al Habib in block-D of North Nazimabad went to a mobile phone company’s office to clear his bills. As he was about to enter the street leading to his house in Block-F, three men sitting in a car intercepted his car. These men held Imran at gunpoint and forced him to hand over Rs215,000 that he was carrying with him.
As the bandits were getting into their get-away vehicle, Sulaiman raised alarm and took out his licensed pistol and began firing in the air. The suspects returned the fire, but no one was injured in the exchange of fire, the SHO Hyderi police post said.
The exchange of fire caught the attention of policemen posted at a picket at the nearby Imambargah Husainia Sajjadia. Policemen rushed towards the spot and opened fire on the fleeing bandits. One of the suspects, identified by his national identity card as Abdul Khaliq, was critically wounded. He was arrested. His two accomplices, who were also wounded, escaped towards Karimabad in a rickshaw. They got stuck up in a traffic jam at the Karimabad traffic signal where the police arrested them.
The police recovered two pistols and Rs215,000 from the alleged bandits.
The injured suspects were identified as Javed and Tariq Ahmed. The get-away car had a fake registration number plate bearing number ACL-217.
The police said two fake number plates, bearing numbers ADB-931 and ADX-466, were recovered from inside the vehicle.
The police traced the original registration number of the car through its engine and chassis number which was ADQ-721.
The car had been hijacked in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on March 30, the SHO said.
SHOT DEAD: A young man was shot dead in his house at Defence Housing Authority early Friday morning.
The police said Ghous Bakhsh Talpur, aged 28, son of Brigadier Maula Bakhsh Talpur (retired), was shot and wounded in his house in Khayaban-i-Badar Phase V, DHA by unknown persons. He died on the way to Jinnah-Post-graduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
The police said the dead man was caretaker and manager of Lawari Sharif Shrine, Badin.
Initially, confusion prevailed about the place of the incident as it was thought that the body was brought from Soldier Bazaar. The police later said confusion was caused as the dead man’s father, who was staying in Soldier Bazaar, had informed them of the incident, but did not say where the killing had taken place.
Referring to the motive behind the killing, the police said a struggle had been going on between two groups for the control of the shrine for quite some time past. One group was led by Mohammed Sadiq Qureshi and the other by Pir Hasan Qadir, both caretakers of the shrine.
In the 1980s about six persons belonging to the Pir Hasan Qadir group were killed. On March 12 this year Ali Mardan Chandio belonging to the Mohammed Sadiq Qureshi group, also a manager of the same shrine, was killed.
Ghous Bakhsh Talpur also was from the Qureshi group. He had arrived in the city on Thursday and had been staying in the house of his cousin, Fazal Karim Talpur, where unknown persons killed him.
ACCIDENT: A young man died in a road accident in Eidgah early Friday morning.
The police said an unidentified pedestrian, who was in his early 30s, was run over by a speeding truck. He was rushed to Civil Hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
