Shot by accomplice: Robber captured by local citizens

RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi. An alleged robber who was injured during a robbery by his own accomplice was captured by citizens in the Saddar Bairuni area late on Saturday night. The police said that a local trader, Ahsanullah, was on his way home on his motorcycle when he was intercepted by two armed men on Chakri Road. Ahsan reportedly resisted the robbers. One of the robbers opened indiscriminate fire with a TT pistol. As a result, four bullets hit the leg of his accomplice. In the meantime, local people gathered at the scene, forcing the robbers flee. However, the injured robber, was unable to escape from the scene, and was reportedly tackled by the locals, who proceeding to thrash him before handing him over to the police, who promptly locked him up. A police official said that further investigation is under way at the time this report was filed.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 30^th, 2014.

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When informed, the police visited the house, inspected the crime scene and went back without registering a case. Ali has been going to and fro the police station for a week, but says the police will not register an FIR, giving him one pretext or the other.

“Police teams led by Sub-Inspector (SI) Shafique have visited my house and eaten lunch twice, but they aren’t registering a case,” Ali said.

The irony here may be that Rawalpindi City Police Officer (CPO) Humayun Bashir Tarar recently claimed he has directed all police stations to promptly register cases and investigate.

When contacted for comment, the SI said he was busy in a meeting and would talk later.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 30^th, 2014.

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x�ign:middle'>Although complainants sympathised with the reasons the lawyers were upset, they also felt court proceedings should not be boycotted. “My brother is in jail in a murder case. We are waiting for the court’s decision, but the case could not be heard on several dates due to boycotts,” said Sharjeel Jan.

 

Abdur Rahim, who is pursuing property litigation, said, “Lawyers boycotts are the major cause behind the increasing number of pending cases that cause delays in dispensation of justice for everyone.”

Meanwhile, lawyers argued that there was no one to raise a voice against government injustices against the legal community. “We also suffering financial losses because of these strikes, but, if we remain silent, there is no one left to rise up against injustices,” said DBA General Secretary Junaid Khokar.

He claimed that the boycotts were not hurdle in the dispensation of justice.

“Our boycott or strikes are not planned. If you go through the record, all the strikes will be about the day-to-day happenings,” said Malik Zaheer Arshad, DBA’s former general secretary.

“How can we find justice inside the courts, if outside the whole country is burning,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 30^th, 2014.