ISLAMABAD: Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of Islamabad police has nabbed seven people involved in separate cases of triple murder, bank robberies and looting people returning from abroad by impersonating police or customs officials.

Sources in the police told Dawn on Monday that SP Investigation Mohammad Ilyas constituted teams which managed to trace the gang and managed to bust them.

During the arrest, the police recovered a fake wireless set and police uniforms in the possession of the gang members. During preliminary investigation, the arrested men confessed to snatching cash from two men returning from Saudi Arabia in the Secretariat Police jurisdiction on June 21 and June 22.

They also confessed to robbing cash from a man in the Khana area while pretending to be customs officials and claiming they had to frisk the man.

Another police team managed to arrest an accused in a triple murder case and a number of robberies. The police said that the accused, along with an accomplice, shot dead a goldsmith and two gunmen near Banigala.

He was similarly accused of shooting at and injuring a security guard at a private bank in PWD Colony during a bank heist on March 31.

A police official said that this man was also wanted in robberies at a bank in Soan Camp on March 18, 2014 and another at the National Saving Centre in Bhara Kahu on May 21, 2014.

Another police team nabbed a man accused of being involved in two robberies, one at Gulshan-al-Huda and another in Shahzad Town.

IGP Tahir Alam Khan applauded the SIU for the arrests, while the SIU appealed to citizens to ask police officials to show their identity cards when they are stopped, especially when they are not in uniforms.

Published in Dawn, July 7th, 2015

On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play