The robbers killed in an alleged encounter near Al-Hamid School, Sector 2, North Karachi by the Khawaja Ajmer Nagri police in Shehr-e-Quaid have been identified, while the police have arrested the accomplice of the robbers killed in the encounter.
DIG West Zone Irfan Baloch called the police party and SHO who participated in the encounter to his office and awarded them with certificates of appreciation and cash prizes.
In this regard, SHO Khawaja Ajmer Nagri Faizul Hassan said that the robbers killed in the police encounter were identified as Arif and Rehan, while their accomplice was identified as Merab.
Accused Merab is a resident of Malir and her family is from Khanewal, Punjab, while both the deceased robbers also belong to Punjab.
The two robbers who were killed in a police encounter and the arrested accused entered a house at gunpoint in the Khawaja Ajmer Nagri area of North Karachi at around 9 pm on March 20 this month, took the family hostage, tortured them, and robbed them of Rs 1.5 million in cash, gold ornaments, mobile phones and other valuables from the house and fled.
While they kept the family locked in a room during the incident and a case has also been registered at the police station, the police had also obtained CCTV footage of the dead robbers and the arrested accused, in which the three were seen walking through the streets.
Faizul Hassan further said that the arrested accused has revealed more than 20 incidents in the city during the initial investigation, including house robberies, snatching purses and gold ornaments from women, as well as other incidents of street crimes.
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