Fake robbery: Bank manager sent to Adiala jail for ‘defrauding customer’

Suspect allegedly planned a fake robbery to deprive customer of Rs3.5 million

ISLAMABAD: A judicial magistrate on Thursday sent a manager of a private bank to Adiala jail for allegedly defrauding one of his customers of Rs3.5 million.

Qaiser Riaz, the complainant, went to JS bank in G-16 to cash a cheque for Rs3.5 million on July 2nd.

Bank Manager Waqas Anjum, however, told Riaz that he would do him a favour and drop the cash at his house himself.

The manager did go to his customer’s house but without the cash, claiming that he had been looted by armed men near Riaz’s house.

The manager also went to the Margalla Police Station to lodge an FIR against the unidentified armed men who as he claimed had looted him.

However, when the police traced the manager’s car using surveillance cameras, they found out that the manager was not alone when he was on his way to Riaz’s residence in Sector F-8.

ASI Tauseef Ahmed, investigation officer for the case, told The Express Tribune that a motorcycle and a car accompanied Anjum’s car.

Police suspected that Anjum was lying to them and interrogated him.

“During interrogation, he confessed to having planned the robbery,” the police official claimed.

Police arrested his two accomplices, identified as Ahmed Masood Alam and Rashid Ali, on July 4 and also recovered full amount of Rs3.5 million as well as a car and a motorcycle used during the crime.

On Thursday, the suspects were produced before Judicial Magistrate Jawad Hussain Adil, who sent them to Adiala jail on a 14-day judicial remand.

Meanwhile, the same court extended physical remand of a man who had been arrested for allegedly preparing fake surety bonds. Arshad Nazeer, the suspect, was booked by the Margalla police on July 6 last year and had been declared a proclaimed offender.

Police sought five-day custody of the suspect in order to recover the fake identity card the suspect used and to arrest other suspects.

The court, however, allowed two-day custody of the suspect and directed the police to produce him before the court on Saturday, July 16.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 15^th, 2016.