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FAISALABAD, Sept 29: A sub-inspector and a constable were killed while the shelterer of proclaimed offenders sustained injuries in an encounter in Nazimabad here on Monday.
A police party, headed by SI Ghulam Muhammad, raided the house of Bashir Masih for the arrest of some proclaimed offenders. Fearing their arrest, the outlaws opened fire on police, killing SI Ghulam Muhammad and constable Muhammad Khan instantly. The police also fired on the outlaws as a result of which Bashir Masih, the owner of the house, sustained injuries. In the meanwhile, the POs silently left their den, snatched a two-wheeler (FDW-8078) from a youth and managed to escape.
Heavy police contingents hastened to the spot and besieged the entire locality. They combed the area, but without any trace of the POs.
Inquiries revealed that Bashir’s house was a notorious den of criminals especially proclaimed offenders. Known among the police circles as a tout, Bashir was also a supplier of illicit liquor. POs Elahi Bux, Mudassar and Tehseen, who allegedly shot dead two policemen, were drinking at the time of the raid.
SP (City) Tauqeer Hayat told Dawn that special police teams had been constituted to arrest the hardened criminals.
He hoped the outlaws would be arrested within the 24 hours as the police got vital information about the absconding POs.
THREATENS: A labourer’s wife threatened to commit suicide along with his entire family if the police did not arrest the culprits who had gang-raped her daughter a fortnight ago at Chak 225-RB.
Talking to newsmen here on Monday, Irshad Bibi said that four influential youths, including Arshad, Pappu and Anwar, entered her house by scaling its boundary wall and took hostage the entire family at gunpoint. She said outlaws thrashed them severely when she and her family members offered resistance. Later, they gang-raped her daughter in the presence of family members. They managed to escape after looting Rs5,000 in cash and ornaments worth thousands of rupees.
She said after running from pillar to post she succeeded in getting a rape case registered against the outlaws with the local Women police station. But so far, she said, they could not arrest the accused. She said the culprits were threatening her of dire consequences.
She asked Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi to direct the police to arrest rapists forthwith, otherwise she would end her life along with other family members.
