Alleged robbery and fraud: Intel, police officials on judicial remand

PESHAWAR:

A court in Peshawar has sent an Intelligence Bureau (IB) official along with four police personnel on a 14-day judicial remand.

The case hearing was held before Judicial Magistrate Sher Aziz, where the five officials were accused of robbing a currency dealer of more than 300,000 Saudi Riyals. Despite denying the charges, they were sent on the two-week remand.

Investigating officer Zahid Khan told The Express Tribune that men in police uniforms had robbed currency dealer Arshad Khan on October 24. A sketch helped identify one of the culprits as sub-inspector Noor Islam of the provincial finance minister’s security squad.

Questioning Islam led to four more arrests, including that of an IB assistant director. A total amount of 70,000 Saudi Riyals and Rs2 million have been recovered from them.

In another court case, Judicial Magistrate Zafrullah Mohmand ordered that a man posing as an Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) official be held by police for two days.

Ali Murad is accused of posing as an ISI official in order to lease government land. Police said Murad was also involved in kidnapping, blackmailing, extortion and murders.

Sources say he has previously been detained and questioned by intelligence services.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 2^nd, 2012.