Faked robbery: Bank manager gets bail
He allegedly stole Rs3.5m from a client while claiming robbers took money from him
Islamabd police. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
The manager of a private bank who allegedly faked a robbery to deprive a client of Rs3.5 million was released on bail, on Friday.
Waqas Anjum was booked and arrested on robbery charges by the Margalla police on July 4.
On July 2, Qaiser Riaz, the complainant, had gone to the bank branch to cash a cheque for Rs3.5 million. The accused, however, told Riaz that he would personally drop the cash off at his house, police records show.
Anjum later went to Riaz’s house and claimed that he had been looted by armed men near Riaz’s residence. The manager also went to the Margalla Police Station to lodge an FIR against unidentified robbers.
When the police traced Anjum’s car through Safe City Project cameras, however, it was found that the manager was not alone when he went to Riaz’s house in Sector F-8. ASI Tauseef Ahmed, the 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,” said the police official.
The police also arrested his accomplices, identified as Ahmed Masood Alam and Rashid Ali, and also recovered the full amount as well as the second car and a motorcycle used in the crime.
On Thursday, the suspects were produced before Judicial Magistrate Jawad Hussain Adil, who sent them to Adiala Jail on judicial remand for 14 days.
On Friday, however, Riaz appeared before the magistrate and said he had reached an out-of-court agreement with Anjum. Subsequently, the court accepted the suspect’s bail application against surety bonds of Rs25,000.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2016.
The manager of a private bank who allegedly faked a robbery to deprive a client of Rs3.5 million was released on bail, on Friday.
Waqas Anjum was booked and arrested on robbery charges by the Margalla police on July 4.
On July 2, Qaiser Riaz, the complainant, had gone to the bank branch to cash a cheque for Rs3.5 million. The accused, however, told Riaz that he would personally drop the cash off at his house, police records show.
Anjum later went to Riaz’s house and claimed that he had been looted by armed men near Riaz’s residence. The manager also went to the Margalla Police Station to lodge an FIR against unidentified robbers.
When the police traced Anjum’s car through Safe City Project cameras, however, it was found that the manager was not alone when he went to Riaz’s house in Sector F-8. ASI Tauseef Ahmed, the 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,” said the police official.
The police also arrested his accomplices, identified as Ahmed Masood Alam and Rashid Ali, and also recovered the full amount as well as the second car and a motorcycle used in the crime.
On Thursday, the suspects were produced before Judicial Magistrate Jawad Hussain Adil, who sent them to Adiala Jail on judicial remand for 14 days.
On Friday, however, Riaz appeared before the magistrate and said he had reached an out-of-court agreement with Anjum. Subsequently, the court accepted the suspect’s bail application against surety bonds of Rs25,000.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2016.