Game over: Three conmen arrested from the city

PESHAWAR: Hashtnagri police arrested three alleged conmen following a complaint on Sunday. The culprits used to offer lifts to people in their car and steal their valuables during the journey. While addressing a news conference at Hashtnagri police station, SSP Operations Mian Saeed said Attaullah lodged an FIR stating he was going to attend to his sick wife at the hospital when three men offered him a ride in Nishtarabad. Attaullah complained that when he was dropped at the destination he found Rs69,000 in cash missing from his pocket. Upon receiving the complaint, police started a search and arrested the three men identified as Shahidullah, Sameen and Sahibullah, who are Afghan refugees.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 12^th, 2015.