Enforcing the law: Three militants rounded up by CID

KARACHI:

The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Sindh Police claim to have arrested three members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday.

CID officials said that the militants were affiliated with the TTP's Swat chapter and were involved in various cases of terrorism in Karachi, including an attack on anti-terror police officer, Inspector Shafiq Tanoli.

The arrests were made during a targeted raid near Labour Square in SITE. The arrested militants were identified as Noor Rasheed, Nadeem and Abid. Three hand grenades, a Kalashnikov and two pistols were seized from their possession. They were later shifted to an undisclosed location for questioning.

CID in-charge Mazhar Mashwani said that the militants were involved in an attack on anti-terror police officer, Inspector Shafiq Tanoli, who was killed in a deadly bomb blast near his residence in Old Sabzi Mandi in April, earlier this year. The officer said that besides their involvement in the attack on Tanoli, the militants had also confessed to their involvement in three cases of sectarian target killings.

Alleged rapist killed

Separately, a suspect was tortured to death by a mob in Sector 7-C within the limits of Surjani Town police station. The deceased was identified as 26-year-old Jahanzaib, son of Khairuddin, a resident of New Karachi.

Police officials said that the accused was trying to flee after kidnapping a four-year-old girl, S*, when residents caught him and beat him up. Following the incident, police reached the site and rescued him from the mob but he died on the way to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. SHO Naveed Nasir said that the suspect was arrested in 2013 for allegedly abducting, raping and killing a four-year-old boy, M*, in Orangi Town and was recently released from jail.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 23^rd, 2014.