Crime: Motorcyclists loot two constables

The motorcyclists held the constables at gun point and snatched a government SMG rifle

MIRPURKHAS: Armed motorcyclists looted two police constables, Sadiq Shaikh and Mohammad Arif, at a police picket near Civil hospital late Tuesday night. Two motorcyclists held the constables at gun point and snatched a government SMG rifle and 30 bullets from Shaikh and fled. A case was lodged by the Mirpurkhas reserve inspector of police line, Mirza Naeem Baig, under section 392, 114, 34 of the penal code written with section 155 of the police ordinance against two unidentified men and constable Shaikh. The police arrested Shaikh.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 10th, 2011.