ISLAMABAD: As many as 41 robbery and theft cases were reported to the capital police, police said on Monday.

Six armed men entered a house located at Mohalla Sikandarabad and looted Rs1.6 million, 16 tola gold ornaments and other valuables.

In another incident, a man deprived an Afghan family of Rs70,000, $3,100 and gold ornaments worth Rs1.5 million in Aapara.

Two armed persons raided a shop at Sanam Chowk and held up the owner at gunpoint and looted cash and mobile phones.

Robbers also snatched Rs70,000 from a shop at Sanam Chowk, Rs200,000 from a man at I.J.P. Road, Rs1,000 and a mobile phone from a shop at Gangal stop and mobile phones from citizens at Mohammadi Town, I-9/ and Godown Chowk.

Moreover, some people riding a car abducted Mohammad Jamil when he was going to a hospital and robbed him of Rs50,000 and dropped him on Islamabad Expressway.

Thieves stole Rs200,000 and five tola gold ornaments from a house at Dhoke Abbasi, Rs70,000 and two mobile phones from a house at G-14/4, cash, prize bonds and a laptop from a house at G-11/1 and electronic items and other material worth Rs520,000 from a store at Shaheenabad.

Meanwhile, four vehicles and 10 motorcycles were also stolen from different parts of the capital.

Seven persons looted Rs20,000 from Rakhshinda Javed on Islamabad Expressway near I-8.

The police said 11 mobile phones were either snatched or stolen at H-9, I.J.P. Road, Mandi Mor, Blue Area, Aabpara, I-11/4, Khanna and G-7/4.

Published in Dawn, March 15th, 2022