Three teens held for ‘toy gun robbery’

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LAHORE: Three teenagers were arrested on Friday for allegedly robbing a man with a toy gun in Iqbal Town.

Jalal, 15, Faiz, 16, and Waseem, 14, were on their way home late on Thursday night when police stopped and arrested them for carrying a toy gun. Police shifted the teenagers to a lock-up but had not registered a case against them until the filing of this report.

The Iqbal Town moharir told Dawn they received an anonymous call regarding a robbery and officers patrolling the area caught the three boys with a toy gun. He said they suspected the boys had carried out the robbery mentioned in the call however police were awaiting a complaint for identification parade of the suspects.

Family of the teenagers alleged police were demanding heavy bribe for release of the boys and no case had been registered against them.

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2015

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mabob

Jul 04, 2015 08:22am

A gate for corruption. Unless corruption stopped at the highest level it would continue at the lowest level. Clean police from corruption and corrupt members. Unless police is refined, no crime can be put to halt.

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Talha

Jul 04, 2015 10:13am

For almost half of their lives these boys have only seen PMLN govt.'s rule. While the so called Khadim e Ala is busy distributing laptops, here we sadly have young boys looting people. Just goes on to show that "Laptop Schemes" and all such gimmicks are doing nothing good for the nation. The ground reality is pretty bleak when boys so young rob people.

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Pragmatist

Jul 04, 2015 11:01am

Why the Pakistani boys have to carry toy guns?

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Justwsf

Jul 04, 2015 02:23pm

why with toy gun at late night? should be investigate?

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