LAHORE – Police in Punjab capital city are yet to trace out the armed robbers who deprived a man of his valuables and cash earlier this year in Defense area.
In June, Shahbaz Rasheed, an herbal doctor by profession, who is a resident of Canal View Society, was going to Railway Academy Walton Road when two armed persons riding a motorcycle intercepted his car at Defence/Walton Morr, Lahore Cantonment.
They got away with Rs. 200,000 at gunpoint, mobile phone and other valuables after holding the man on gunpoint. Following the incident, occurred around 8:30pm on June 15, 2016, Rasheed registered an FIR with Defense-A Police Station.
Despite all assurances by the police, the robbers are yet to be arrested. This year, the police introduced a high-powered street crime combating Dolphin Force which has been assigned all the major areas of Lahore. Besides the Force, police mobile vans and even Military Police (MP) keep on patrolling in the area of Cantonment which includes several posh localities like DHA and Cavalry Ground.
However, the law-enforcement agencies have remained unable to find a clue about the robbers. The capital city of Punjab has witnessed a surge of street crimes this year.
Last week, robbers hit the provincial capital for more than 150 times successfully and made off with cash, gold ornaments, and other valuables worth millions. Also 14 cars and 50 motorcycles were driven away from different parts of the Punjab capital city. In less than a month, two broad-day light robberies on traffic signals, sparked fear and panic among the citizens.
On Thursday, PML-N lawmaker Inamullah Niazi was robbed of cash and cell phone on The Mall when he stopped at a traffic signal. Official data shows during the first 10 months of this year, at least 801 dacoities, 11,412 robberies and 9,867 burglaries were reported to police.
Similarly, the police also registered at least 1,181 cases of theft, 13,343 cases of motor-vehicle theft and 3,218 of motor-vehicle snatching and 4,603 cattle-theft from January to October this year.
