Shamsul Anwar case: Conman sent on 14-day judicial remand

Police recover Rs50,000 from accused.

RAWALPINDI:

The police have recovered Rs50,000 from suspected fraudster, Shamsul Anwar, during seven days of physical remand.

Investigation officer (IO) Awais Akram told The Express Tribune that aside from the Rs50,000 recovered from his possession, over Rs0.75 million were in his bank account which has been frozen.

The police arrested Anwar on January 12 after busting his fraud and registered a case against him.

Anwar collected almost Rs800,000 in donations by gaining the sympathies of  hundreds of people with a concocted story that he had lost a son and was about to lose a daughter to kidnappers.

He claimed that the terrorists kidnapped his daughter for thwarting an attack on a mosque in 2001.

The group, he also claimed, had killed his son and were threatening to kill his daughter, who was actually safe at home.

His ‘murdered’ son had actually died of complications when he was 20 days old. Anwar also claimed the terrorists had injected sedatives into his other son, causing him blood cancer.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 21^st, 2012.