NAROWAL: Gunmen struck three houses in a private housing society here on Monday and took away gold, cash and valuables besides beating families for resisting them.

The first robbery took place at the house of Farooq Baig at 7pm on Monday near the District Police Line on Narowal-Shakargarh Road, where five gunmen wearing masks took away gold jewellery, cash, valuables and clothes. They also ate food from the kitchen as they stayed in the house for two hours.

Farooq said the robbers even took away groceries. He said the robbers kept asking the family about the house where the marriage took place a few days ago in the private housing society.

The same gang later broke into the house of neighbour Muhammad Rafiq and beat the family for resisting them. They also looted gold jewellery, cash and valuables from the house and fled. The robbers had automatic guns and pistols, said Rafiq.

According to the family, the robbers also drank hot milk and kept eating fruits from the fridge.

In the third strike, seven dacoits broke into the house of constable Manzar Ali and tortured senior citizen Muhammad Bashir, his son Dr Munir and women for resistance.

Constable Manzar Ali said the masked robbers stayed at home for three hours and collected gold jewellery, cash, valuables, clothes, blankets, rice and other food items from the house. The dowry for Manzar’s sister was looted. Manzar said no FIR was registered. Also, thieves stole Rs1.8 million from a shopping centre on Circular Road.

DSP Muhammad Ilyas said there were two incidents of robbery for which an FIR was registered.

“I don’t know if there was a robbery at any policeman’s house,” he said. He said the police were trying to arrest the robbers.

Published in Dawn, December 8th, 2021