Shootout: Police kill proclaimed offender, accomplice flees
City police claims to have arrested 84 during holidays.
FAISALABAD:
A proclaimed offender was killed in a shootout with Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) police near Gatwala on Tuesday, while his accomplice fled.
Police said Inspector Zafar Iqbal Ora of CIA Makoana and his team were on duty at a picket on a road near Gatwala leading to Wazir Singhwala area when they signaled two men a motorcycle to stop.
They said instead the two suspects tried to escape.
The police team chased them and ordered them to surrender. He said a few minutes later, the suspects threw their motorcycles in a drain and took up positions in the nearby field. They started firing at the police. The police shot back.
He said that the police team surrounded the field. The shootout continued for more than an hour, after which one of the suspects got shot. He said when the firing stopped from the other side, police assumed that the two men had been killed. They went closer to recover the bodies, but found only one.
The second suspect had fled.
Police said the deceased was later identified as Akbar Ali alias Ratho, a resident of Chak 237-RB. They said he was wanted in 24 cases in several police stations. These included murder and robbery.
Superintendent Rae Zameerul Haq told The Express Tribune that police had fixed Rs1 million head money on the deceased.
The body was sent to Allied Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
84 criminals nabbed over Eid holidays
City police claimed to have arrested 84 people for various offences during the Eid holidays.
Inspector Aamir Waheed, PRO to the city police officer, said the men were arrested in raids.
These included drug peddlers, proclaimed offenders, illegal weapons holders, court absconders and inebriated men.
He said police also recovered 4.8 kilograms of hashish, 553 grams of heroin, 411 bottles of liquor, nine pistols (0.30 bore), a gun, a rifle, a Kalashnikov and 48 cartridges from those arrested.
Police also unearthed two distilleries on Eid and sealed them, he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 31st, 2012.
A proclaimed offender was killed in a shootout with Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) police near Gatwala on Tuesday, while his accomplice fled.
Police said Inspector Zafar Iqbal Ora of CIA Makoana and his team were on duty at a picket on a road near Gatwala leading to Wazir Singhwala area when they signaled two men a motorcycle to stop.
They said instead the two suspects tried to escape.
The police team chased them and ordered them to surrender. He said a few minutes later, the suspects threw their motorcycles in a drain and took up positions in the nearby field. They started firing at the police. The police shot back.
He said that the police team surrounded the field. The shootout continued for more than an hour, after which one of the suspects got shot. He said when the firing stopped from the other side, police assumed that the two men had been killed. They went closer to recover the bodies, but found only one.
The second suspect had fled.
Police said the deceased was later identified as Akbar Ali alias Ratho, a resident of Chak 237-RB. They said he was wanted in 24 cases in several police stations. These included murder and robbery.
Superintendent Rae Zameerul Haq told The Express Tribune that police had fixed Rs1 million head money on the deceased.
The body was sent to Allied Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
84 criminals nabbed over Eid holidays
City police claimed to have arrested 84 people for various offences during the Eid holidays.
Inspector Aamir Waheed, PRO to the city police officer, said the men were arrested in raids.
These included drug peddlers, proclaimed offenders, illegal weapons holders, court absconders and inebriated men.
He said police also recovered 4.8 kilograms of hashish, 553 grams of heroin, 411 bottles of liquor, nine pistols (0.30 bore), a gun, a rifle, a Kalashnikov and 48 cartridges from those arrested.
Police also unearthed two distilleries on Eid and sealed them, he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 31st, 2012.