Crime cleanse: Law enforcers to start operation in Hyderabad, Jamshoro

Criminals from Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Ghotki, Kambar-Shahdadkot, Kashmore-Kandhkot districts were involved in crimes.

HYDERABAD:

Labelled as a safe haven for kidnappers and robbers, the suburbs in Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts inhabited by the migrant Sindhi population will come under a joint operation by the Rangers and police within a week, The Express Tribune has learnt.

According to sources in the police department, this was decided in a meeting between the officials of the law enforcement agencies on Wednesday. ‘These areas will be cordoned off while aerial monitoring will also be carried out,” an official told The Express Tribune. When contacted, Hyderabad Region DIG Naeem Akram Bharoka confirmed that such an operation has been planned.



“We have ample crime records and intelligence reports that these suburbs have become dens of different types of criminals, who take shelter there and after committing crimes escape to their hometown,” said the DIG. He, however, refused to disclose which specific neighbourhoods will be part of the operation. Bharoka also avoided telling the length of the planned operation.

A large number of flood and rain affected people from northern Sindh settled in the outskirts of Hyderabad and Jamshoro’s Kotri taluka after the 2010 floods. According to police officials, criminals from Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Ghotki, Kambar-Shahdadkot and Kashmore-Kandhkot districts have been found involved in most of the robberies, kidnappings and car thefts.

“These elements live among the migrants, conduct crimes and then escape to the districts of their origin,” said CIA in-charge Aslam Langha, who rescued a man from his kidnappers in Qasimabad. Raja Irfan Rajput, a resident of Rawalpindi, who works as a clerk at the Rawalpindi district and session court, was kidnapped while visiting Qadam Gah Moula Ali (RA) on December 28, 2013.

Both the arrested kidnappers, Abid Shah and Soomar Sundrani, belong to Kashmore-Kandhkot district, claimed Langha, adding that Sundrani is nominated in at least a dozen FIRs in his home district and Ghotki. In the wake of Karachi operation, the Hyderabad police and even Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon had claimed that a similar operation would also be launched in Hyderabad.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 6^th, 2014.