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| December 14, 2006 | Thursday | Ziqa'ad 22, 1427 |
SI killed by ‘dacoits’
LAHORE, Dec 13: Robbers killed a sub-inspector on resistance and took away his wallet and cell phone in the Lorry Adda area early on Wednesday. Police, however, claimed that unidentified people had poisoned him.
Nazar Husain, 50, who is in-charge investigation at Faisalabad’s Rail Bazaar police station, came to Lahore at around 4am on Wednesday to appear in a court. His body was found in Minar-i-Pakistan ground near Gate 5 on Wednesday morning.
Sources said that Nazar was hit in the head with a sharp-edged weapon. They said the police detected footprints of two people near Gate 5 in front of Ravi Chargah House.
Ravi Town SP Gohar Nafees ruled out he had been killed by dacoits. He said the body had no injury marks.
He suspected that the killer(s) might have poisoned him. He said a case was registered at Lorry Adda police station.
South Cantonment police arrested five dacoits after a shootout with them in the Cavalry Ground area on Wednesday evening.
Five robbers struck a house in Street 8 and were about to flee with the loot when watchmen shot at them injuring Arif, a ring leader. In the meantime, Muhafiz police came to the spot and had an exchange of firing with the robbers.
They later nabbed the robbers after a chase. The injured dacoit was rushed to the Services Hospital.
However, the South Cantonment SHO claimed that they had arrested one robber while others managed their escape.
Three robbers burst into an advertising company’s office in the Qila Gujjar Singh area and took away Rs100,000 in cash and four cell phones at gunpoint.
Robbers barged into Shahid General Store in Angoori Scheme and escaped with Rs60,000 in cash while armed men came to a shop in Ghaziabad and got away with cash, calling cards worth Rs70,000 and cell phones.
A passer-by was deprived of Rs7,000 and a cell phone in Johar Town while another was deprived of Rs4,000 and a cell phone in the Kot Lakhpat area.
Two people were deprived of cash and cell phones in the Gulberg and Hall Road areas.
Two armed car riders intercepted a female schoolteacher in the Punjab Government Employees Cooperative Housing Society and deprived her of Rs2,000 in cash and a cell phone.
DIE ON ROAD: Two people died in two road accidents in the city on Wednesday. A young man died when his motorcycle hit a parked tractor-trolley on MM Alam Road in Gulberg on Wednesday.
Police said Kashif from Singhpura was on way to his office when his motorcycle hit the tractor-trolley near Dongi Ground on MM Alam Road, leaving him dead instantly.
Police arrested driver Nor Azam and registered a case against him.
A bicycle rider was run over by a speeding lorry in the Shafiqabad area.
Police said Abdul Qayyum, 40, was crossing Bund Road when the lorry hit him.
The injured was rushed to Mayo Hospital with critical face injuries where he died.
The driver fled after leaving the truck on the crime scene.
Meanwhile, a man died under mysterious circumstances in Sabzazar on Wednesday morning.
Police said Arshad, 22, of Hyderi Colony, Khaarak, had left his house after taking dinner and his body was found on Multan Road at around 6am.
They suspected that Arshad, who was mentally deranged, might have died of cold as he often used to sleep in the open outside the house.
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