KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Thursday remanded a suspected mugger into judicial custody. The suspect, arrested for allegedly looting a citizen at gunpoint on main University Road.

The investigating officer of the case produced the suspect, Shamshair, before Judicial Magistrate (East) Zohaib Hussain.

The IO claimed that the suspect was arrested with an illegal weapon and booked under Section 397 (robbery) at the Mubina Town police station on the complaint of a citizen on Nov 11.

The citizen, according to the IO, told the police that he was returning home on his motorcycle at around 12:45am when the suspect, who was travelling by a rickshaw, approached and held him at gunpoint to snatch his motorcycle, mobile phone and laptops.

The suspect was trying to flee the spot when the police arrived and arrested him.

Published in Dawn, November 13th, 2026