Cheats on streets: Fake cops loot citizen

Fraudsters deprive man of Rs164,500.

ISLAMABAD: Two fraudsters impersonating police officials deprived a man of Rs164,500 in Blue Area on Saturday.

Abdulla Yahya told Kohsar police that two men in civvies stopped him near a money changer.

They said that they were cops and also showed him a police card.

The suspects told Yahya that they suspected him to be a drug peddler and wanted to search him.

He cooperated and offered himself for search.

The suspects, who might have followed him, pulled out cash, the victim was carrying in his pocket and sped away in their car.

The victim lodged a complaint with the Kohsar police, who registered an FIR against the unidentified men.

ASI Muhammad Raees, who is investigation officer for the case, said the victim could not note the number of the car neither had the police located the suspects on cameras.

He said the victim was a student.

Fraudsters impersonating police and other law-enforcement officials and looting the innocent are on the rise in the capital.

On May 18, Bhara Kahu police had arrested a fraudster who impersonated as an ISI colonel and defrauded three persons of Rs82,000.

The suspect, identified as Aamir Hafeez, had swindled several people on promises of getting them jobs at a departmental store in London, which he told the people was owned by a brigadier, he was working under.

Hafeez was released on bail on Saturday.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 23^rd, 2016.