Though a month has been passed, Chhipa did not approach the police to register the case but the Chhipa association provided the CCTV footage to the police to investigate the case.
At least 10-15 armed men barged into the ground-plus-four-storey building of the Chhipa Welfare Association located near the FTC flyover, Sharah-e-Faisal, within the limits of the brigade police station and escaped with the looted booty. In similar fashion, Edhi’s office was also robbed by 10 armed men in broad daylight.
Ramzan Chhipa, founder of Chhipa Welfare Association, while talking to The Express Tribune, said, “They were armed and were also carrying bags, while some of them were masked and wearing cowboy caps.”
Though the police investigators failed to probe both robberies, they suspect that both cases might be linked to each other.
“Both robberies are definitely similar,” Brigade SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi told The Express Tribune.
According to reports, cash and valuables were worth millions of rupees were looted. However, the administration did not reveal the exact amount.
Police officials on the other hand said that some Rs300,000 were looted, and that the robbers did not find the lockers where all the money was kept.
In response to a question, SHO Afridi said that the police have already registered a case against unidentified persons after the Chhipa administration refused to register a case.
“They (robbers) seemed professional,” said a senior investigation officer.
The officer said that some suspects ahead of both the robberies were detained, but were released due to lack of evidence of their involvement. He added that suspects of both robberies would be arrested soon.
Correction: An earlier version of this story erroneously reported that the incident took place on November 5. The error is regretted.
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This is what leads to a poor nation. We robbing ourself. Without any questions asked these people should be dead in an incounter or beaten to death in front of the society. This is a shameful thing for people to do such a thing. Chippa is a welfare trust and they tend to rob such a welfare. Wow!!! They wil be unhappy for there rest of there lives.
What i really think about is that, these robberies are the sign of terrifying people by doing all of these things. And if we're talking about MQM+PPP and other governments, so sorry, they are just for the sake of their own, not for people who elected them for their lives , for their security and for to make a good living standard in a state or city. They are just playing with people's life and nothing.
What is wrong with these people! Why are they keeping all that money/cash & valuables in their offices! First Edhi and now they.
Btw, great work policing and running Karachi (MQM+PPP) and Sindh (PPP) you pseudo-liberal/secular lot! Run it to the ground!
After Edhi heist what were Chippa doing? Waiting to be robbed? Had they taken any additional security measure while handling such large amount of cash?
Even after Edhi heist I had said that such large amount of cash and valuables shouldn't be at the premises,they should either use bank to disburse cash or should have serious security like Banks have.
I bow my head in shame when I see this happening !!!!
These type of acts are bound to happen when there is so much of injustice in the society, police dept. is either inept or filled with corrupt officers.
Wow this is a shame the second welfare organization robbed in less than 2 months... what is the government doing, we already know the police and government can’t protect the civilians but they should do something about this, these people are helping our society (even though they are well beyond being helped) THIS IS JUST A SHAME ON US !!!
These thugs are scums of our society with no moral values.