Hamid Ali, a security guard at Allied Bank on II Chundrigar Road, along with his accomplices pulled off the biggest bank robbery in country’s history on December 13, 2009.
A district and sessions court awarded on Friday life sentences to four men involved in the country’s biggest bank heist after the prosecution successfully established a case against them.
Jalaluddin Soomro, an additional district and sessions judge in district South, awarded the punishment to the accused, Hamid alias Sanaullah, Laiq, Mohsin Ali and Mulazim Hussain, and imposed a fine of Rs20 million after hearing both sides. If the convicts fail to pay, they will have to stay in prison for one more year, ordered the judge.
Hamid Ali, a security guard at Allied Bank on II Chundrigar Road, along with his accomplices pulled off the biggest bank robbery in country’s history on December 13, 2009, escaping with foreign currency worth Rs311.2 million.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2013.
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