Police bust gangs, recover over Rs10m

Three suspects killed, 12 arrested; vehicles, fake faith healers' loot recovered

HYDERABAD:

The police have claimed recovery of an unusually high amount of robbed and stolen cash and vehicles in separate raids which ended up in killing of three suspects and arrest of 12 others. SSP Adeel Hussain said that over Rs10 million cash, eight cars and a tractor have been recovered from the suspects including a woman.

Two suspected motorbike lifters of Malano gang and one of Laghari gang, identified as Muzaffar Malano, Deedar Malano and Aashiq Ali Laghari, were killed in police encounters this week. They were booked in 16 FIRs of motorbike snatching.

Following back to back incidents of robberies, including the looting of Rs8.4 million cash at gunpoint from the officials of an ice cream factory in the SITE area on July 14, Chandio constituted a team of four police officials to hunt the suspects. So far two of the five robbers involved have been rounded up. The suspects Bilal and Ali Shaikh allegedly handed back around half of the looted cash to the police. Chandio further mentioned that four fake faith healers have also been rounded up with a recovery of Rs3 million cash which they had allegedly swindled from their followers. They include Waheed Sajjan, Aashiq Hussain Solangi, Dhani Bux Solangi and Raja Mugheri.

A woman, Shabana Naeem, had allegedly masterminded and executed a house theft on May 30 in Latifabad in the limits of A-Section police station. She, along with her accomplice Noman Baloch, stole Rs1.2 million cash. The SSP said, both of them have been nabbed and Rs800,000 has so far been recovered from them.

After the press conference, the SSP distributed appreciation certificates among the police officers and returned recovered cash to the complainants of the robbery and theft FIRs.

The SSP shared that another gang of four suspects, identified as Mola Bux, Rasool Bux, Iqbal Panhwar and Abdul Jabbar, were apprehended for their alleged involvement in the car theft cases.