Roadside cafe shooting: Man arrested comes clean
His gang colleague Shafiq alias Tunda had shot the man because he thought that he was trying to tackle the robbers.
KARACHI:
After three days of interrogation, a suspect arrested after the shooting of a young man at Boat Basin has blamed his accomplice for the crime.
On October 5, Abdul Lateef Bawany was shot point blank inside Roadside Café by suspected bandits.
According to the statement given by the arrested suspect, Hafeez Rehman, his gang colleague Shafiq alias Tunda had shot the man because he thought that he was trying to tackle the robbers.
“It was his first time [for such a crime],” he stated. “We are not professionals otherwise we would have planned it better and this would not have happened.”
The suspect said that they snatched cell phones in Clifton and Boat Basin, and later sold them off in Usmanabad.
The case investigation officer, SI Abdul Ghaffar, said that Hafeez’s gang has four Pakhtun members. “They live in Hijrat Colony, Sultanabad and are childhood friends. They have no criminal records.”
The statements of police, Hafeez and Lateef’s family add up to how the incident occurred. Police claim to have learnt all about the gang, but have failed to arrest any more suspects.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 9th, 2012.
After three days of interrogation, a suspect arrested after the shooting of a young man at Boat Basin has blamed his accomplice for the crime.
On October 5, Abdul Lateef Bawany was shot point blank inside Roadside Café by suspected bandits.
According to the statement given by the arrested suspect, Hafeez Rehman, his gang colleague Shafiq alias Tunda had shot the man because he thought that he was trying to tackle the robbers.
“It was his first time [for such a crime],” he stated. “We are not professionals otherwise we would have planned it better and this would not have happened.”
The suspect said that they snatched cell phones in Clifton and Boat Basin, and later sold them off in Usmanabad.
The case investigation officer, SI Abdul Ghaffar, said that Hafeez’s gang has four Pakhtun members. “They live in Hijrat Colony, Sultanabad and are childhood friends. They have no criminal records.”
The statements of police, Hafeez and Lateef’s family add up to how the incident occurred. Police claim to have learnt all about the gang, but have failed to arrest any more suspects.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 9th, 2012.