Found guilty: Two men charged with mugging

KARACHI:

The district and session court Malir charged two men for robbery on Wednesday.

Saeed Khan and Ghazi had been accused of mugging an electrician, Mohammad Rafiq-ur-Rasheed, near the Aga Graveyard in Saadi Town.

According to the FIR, on March 10 Khan and Muhammad stopped Rasheed’s motorcycle and snatched his mobile phone and Rs1,500 cash. They also carried a 12 bore repeater pistol and a stick. A police mobile reached the scene just in time and caught Khan when he was trying to flee. Ghazi is still missing.

However the men pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them in court. Their lawyer claimed in the bail application that the men had been implicated in a false case. He said that Rasheed had stated in the FIR that his clients had robbed him at gunpoint. But Khan and Muhammad had been without any transportation. “The men were armed but without any transport to run away,” he said. “This casts doubts over the prosecution’s story.”

Published in The Express Tribune, July 5^th, 2012.