Wrong company: Father saves son by moving police against him
The youngster had befriended four people involved in carjacking.
ISLAMABAD:
The city police arrested four people on charges of carjacking on the information provided by a boy whose father had moved the police against him.
A man approached the Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Margalla Faisal Bashir Memon and requested him to act against his teenager son who, he claimed, had gone into wrong company
of friends.
The man told the police officer that he suspected his son was involved in a criminal activity, which could be carjacking.
“He had locked his son inside a room to keep him from his partners, but the boy managed to escape,” said a police official.
The father of the boy waited for him for three days before going to the police for help.
“He asked us to move against his son and save him from becoming a criminal and we responded to his request,” said Superintendent of Police (Saddar) Dr Khurrum Rashid.
Police contacted his son on phone and tried to convince him to cooperate with the police and reveal the nature of activities his friends were involved in. Initially, the boy remained ‘loyal to his friends’ but gave up on police’s persistence.
The 19-year-old boy told the police about the location of his friends who, he said, were involved in stealing cars. On his information, the police carried out raids at different places in the city and arrested Siddique, Gul Wali, Nabi Jan and Babar Hussain, most of them in their early twenties.
One of them was a cab driver who was responsible for providing transportation to the two carjackers. “He used to pick and drop the two carjackers and was also helping them in reconnaissance of their target vehicles,” said a police official.
Another of the four arrested suspects was a dealer of stolen cars. “The police made the two carjackers call him to a place for taking a car where he was arrested by the police,” added the official.
Except for the cabbie, the suspects were released from jail only a couple of months ago. During the initial investigations, they revealed that they had stolen five cars after being released: one from Margalla area and two each from Tarnol and Shalimar areas.
Police also seized jammers, two 30-bore pistols, 1200 grams of hashish and 700 grams of opium from their possession, said a police official. He added that further investigations were underway.
The suspects would be produced before the court to obtain their physical remand as the police were hopeful they would reveal more information on the stolen cars.
The boy, who had later given himself into police custody, was released as police did not find his involvement in any of the incidents of car theft.
Police said the boy was only a friend of the four carjackers but was not directly involved in the crime. His father, a low-rank public servant, thanked the police for their cooperation and for saving the career of his son.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 25th, 2010.
The city police arrested four people on charges of carjacking on the information provided by a boy whose father had moved the police against him.
A man approached the Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Margalla Faisal Bashir Memon and requested him to act against his teenager son who, he claimed, had gone into wrong company
of friends.
The man told the police officer that he suspected his son was involved in a criminal activity, which could be carjacking.
“He had locked his son inside a room to keep him from his partners, but the boy managed to escape,” said a police official.
The father of the boy waited for him for three days before going to the police for help.
“He asked us to move against his son and save him from becoming a criminal and we responded to his request,” said Superintendent of Police (Saddar) Dr Khurrum Rashid.
Police contacted his son on phone and tried to convince him to cooperate with the police and reveal the nature of activities his friends were involved in. Initially, the boy remained ‘loyal to his friends’ but gave up on police’s persistence.
The 19-year-old boy told the police about the location of his friends who, he said, were involved in stealing cars. On his information, the police carried out raids at different places in the city and arrested Siddique, Gul Wali, Nabi Jan and Babar Hussain, most of them in their early twenties.
One of them was a cab driver who was responsible for providing transportation to the two carjackers. “He used to pick and drop the two carjackers and was also helping them in reconnaissance of their target vehicles,” said a police official.
Another of the four arrested suspects was a dealer of stolen cars. “The police made the two carjackers call him to a place for taking a car where he was arrested by the police,” added the official.
Except for the cabbie, the suspects were released from jail only a couple of months ago. During the initial investigations, they revealed that they had stolen five cars after being released: one from Margalla area and two each from Tarnol and Shalimar areas.
Police also seized jammers, two 30-bore pistols, 1200 grams of hashish and 700 grams of opium from their possession, said a police official. He added that further investigations were underway.
The suspects would be produced before the court to obtain their physical remand as the police were hopeful they would reveal more information on the stolen cars.
The boy, who had later given himself into police custody, was released as police did not find his involvement in any of the incidents of car theft.
Police said the boy was only a friend of the four carjackers but was not directly involved in the crime. His father, a low-rank public servant, thanked the police for their cooperation and for saving the career of his son.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 25th, 2010.