Two suspected dacoits were killed and two were arrested during two police encounters on Tuesday.
Police shifted the bodies of the slain robbers and the injured to Allied Hospital, seized two motorcycles and registered cases against them. Both dacoits have a criminal record in Lahore and Faisalabad.
A team of Dolphin Squad had set up a check post at Jhangi Chowk on Sargodha Road. At around 3am, personnel deployed at the post signaled four suspects on motorcycles to stop, but two of them opened fire on the police team and fled.
The Dolphin team followed the men who again opened fire.
In retaliatory firing, Mohammad Akmal, son of Mohammad Asghar, a resident of 13th Street, Mohalla Farooqabad, and his accomplice Nadeem Sarwar, a resident of Mohalla Al-Hamd, Pak Colony, Ravi Road, was injured.
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They died on the way to the hospital. Police searched for the other accomplices of the robbers but could not trace them.
Sargodha Road Police Station SHO Inspector Mian Zahid Pahlawan shifted the bodies to the hospital.
SP Madina Division Arsalan Shahzeb said the deceased Akmal who had a criminal record of 31 cases in different police stations including People's Colony, Sargodha Road, Muridwala, Mamoun Kanjan, Ghulam Muhammd Abad and Mansoorabad.
Sarwar had a criminal record in 26 cases of Islampura, Nawab Town, Mughalpura, Raiwind, Faisal Town, Sandra, Sutu Katla and Township police stations.
Police registered a case against the dead robbers and their accomplices and are searching for the fugitives.
Meanwhile, Imtiaz alias Lapa, son of Muhammad Nawaz, resident of Fazlabad Street No 1, was injured in an exchange of fire with police while fleeing after snatching a motorcycle and Rs28,000 from Arsalan. His accomplice, identified as Ali Imran, surrendered before the police.
The injured dacoit was shifted to Allied Hospital.
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Police registered a case against the two arrested dacoits on charges of robbery and encounter.
SP Lyallpur Town Issa Khan stated that the injured dacoit was involved in seven cases registered in Ghulam Muhammad Abad, Razaabad and Nishatabad police stations, and he is being interrogated.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 15th, 2020.
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