KARACHI, April 10: Five robbers, one of them in police uniform, deprived a man, returning from Dubai, of his cash, mobile phone and other belongings early Saturday.
The victim, Sohail Jamil, told Bahadurabad police that he had returned home after six years. Carrying a lot of goods for his family, and some important documents, he left the airport and was on way home in a yellow cab, he said.
As the cab reached near Shaheed-i-Millat bridge on Shrea Faisal, a man in police uniform signalled it to stop, he said, and added that the policeman and four other persons in civvies looted all his belongings and cash.
Mr Jamil said that they returned his passport. As the taxi driver offered resistance, the robbers beat him up severely, he said. The bandits fled in a car (AFG-154) blowing police siren with a blue warning light.
ARREST: A bandit was arrested on Saturday by the Site police who claimed that they recovered a stolen motorcycle from his possession. The vehicle was snatched in Kalakot, Lyari, they said.
TPO Site Town Imran Shaukat said that two bandits had snatched the motorbike (TA-1557) from Zubair. The Site police, later, spotted the motorcycle near a post office.
As the bike riders were intercepted, they opened fire atpolice. They also tried to snatch a taxi, police said, and added that in the ensuing exchange of fire, one of the bandits, Khalid, sustained bullet injury but his accomplice, Zulfiqar, made his escape good.
