KARACHI, Aug 25: A young lawyer was gunned down inside his office in Zamzama within the remit of the Clifton police station on Thursday, police said.

They said two men were seen entering the office of 32-year-old high court lawyer Murtaza Chinoy on the second floor of a building on the 9th Lane Commercial Street, Zamzama, in the first half of the day.

He was hit by a single bullet in the upper torso that proved fatal, the police added.

“As told by witnesses two men entered the office where Mr Chinoy was alone and engaged in his work. Some people inside the building heard a brief exchange of arguments before a few gunshots,” said Inspector Rao Rafiq, the SHO of the Clifton police station.

He said the mode of transport of the attackers and their identity remained unclear.

Investigators believed that some personal issues could be the cause of the incident, he added.

“We have registered an FIR [202/2011] under Sections 302 [premeditated murder] and 34 [common intention] of the Pakistan Penal Code against unidentified suspects on the complaint of the victim’s cousin,” the police officer added.

Body in gunny bag

In the second half of the day, the body of a young man was found stuffed in a gunny bag in a Steel Town locality on Thursday, police said.

They said that the victim who looked to be in his mid-20s was hit by a single bullet in the head.

“The body also bore marks of torture. It was found on a link road and has been shifted to the Edhi morgue after medico-legal formalities at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for want of identification,” said an official at the Steel Town police station.

Rs4m looted

Four armed men entered a money changer office in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, relieved the lone private guard of his pistol, and walked off with local and foreign currency worth more than Rs4 million on Thursday, police said.

The robbers took only five minutes to complete the task.

The area police said the four men on two motorbikes stopped outside A.A. Money Changer, situated near Nipa in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, and entered the facility one by one.

Clad in shalwar-kameez, a couple of them pretended as customers and took brief information regarding exchange rates before being joined by their accomplices.

“As told by the money changer office staff, two bandits entered the facility and moved to one of the counters,” said an official at the Aziz Bhatti police station. “They asked about the exchange rates of foreign currencies before pulling out their pistols. At the same time, two more bandits with pistols in their hands entered the office.”

The bandits, the official said, overpowered the lone private security deputed there and snatched his pistol. Then they collected different currencies from the cash counter, he added.

Clues to robbers

“The episode lasted five minutes and it left the staff and visitors present there in shock,” said Aziz Bhatti SHO Inspector Raja Tariq.

“We have acquired CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras footage that offered several clues to the identity of the armed men,” the inspector said.

The investigators sounded sure that the way the robbery was committed was not different from the bank heists committed in the city.

An FIR (503/2011) was registered at the Aziz Bhatti police station under Sections 395 (punishment for robbery) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Out of the total nine bank robberies reported this year, four were committed in August alone. Last year witnessed 22 bank robberies though the police investigators claimed to have solved 16 such cases by arresting more than a dozen suspects.

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