Suspects loot cash from man leaving bank

Victim was deprived of Rs300,000 in cash

CHAK JHUMRA:

A man was robbed of Rs300,000 which he had drawn from a bank, police said. They said Muhammad Waqas drew Rs300,000 from a bank branch in Gulberg area.

Three strangers, who had apparently been tailing him, intercepted him in the area from where he had drawn the money and got him engaged into talking to them. This was a mistake the man should not have made.

They then robbed him of Rs300,000 and fled, said the police. On May 31, a man had been robbed of Rs2.6 million by armed robbers in the area of Madina Town Police Station in Dijkot. After committing the robbery, the suspects fled under the cover of fire.

Police registered a case against the suspects as well as against the operations manager of the bank from where the victim had drawn the money.

The case against operations manager of the bank was registered for alleged violation of the Punjab Security Act.

Imran Ali, Omar Zaman and Mohammad Ashfaq, residents of Al-Noor Garden, had been travelling in their car with the money they had drawn from the bank. The robbers, who had apparently been tailing the car, burst the tires of the car with gunshots.

As the car screeched to a halt, the suspects robbed Ashfaq of Rs2.6 million and fled under the cover of fire.

Police arrived at the scene of crime and collected bullet casings. They also obtained the CCTV footage of the incident. Madina Town Police registered a case.

In the first week of May, a shop owner was killed by robbers in Chak Jhumra when he offered resistance. Zaid had set up Jalal Super Store off the Main Road in 196 RB Ghona Area in the jurisdiction of the Millat Town Police Station.

Two robbers on a motorcycle arrived at the shop to loot it. Zaid, Azeem-ul-Haq and Abdul Qayyum resisted them upon which the robbers opened fire on 25-year-old Zaid who died on the spot while the robbers fled.

Millat Town police handed over the body of the deceased to his family after postmortem and registered a case against two unidentified robbers under Sections 302 and 393 of the PPC on the statement of the deceased's brother, Zain, and started searching for the murderers.

In March this year, suspects opened fire on a shopkeeper and killed him after he resisted being robbed in Khurrianwala. Muhammad Kazim, a resident of Chak 37 North, had set up a shop, Awan Studio and EasyPaisa, along with his father, Azam.

The shop is located near Sheikhupura Road.

Two suspects on a motorcycle arrived at the shop late at night and tried to snatch cash from Azam, who drew a licensed pistol to defend himself. The robbers fired first, hitting him in the abdomen and chest.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 4^th, 2022.