RAWALPINDI:Gunjmandi Police have arrested four dacoits allegedly involved in two different dacoities and recovered an amount of Rs 7.5 million looted from a trader and a bank.
A police spokesman said three dacoits namely Muhammad Akhtar, Muhammad Usman and Muhammad Umair, who had looted Rs seven million from a trader, were rounded up and police recovered the looted amount from their possession.
In another raid, Gunjmandi police managed to net a dacoit Zaheer Ahmed who was allegedly involved in a bank robbery and murder of the bank security guard Ansar. Police also recovered Rs 500,000 looted amount from his possession.
He informed that a team of the investigators was constituted to trace the criminals under the supervision of Superintendent of Police (SP), Rawalpindi, SP Criminal Investigation Agency, Sub-Divisional Police Officer City and Station House Officer Gunjmandi.
The teams through modern technology and human intelligence remained successful in arresting the dacoits and recovered Rs 7.5 million from their possession.
According to Senior Superintendent of Police Investigation, Ghazanfar Ali Shah, the facilitators would also be arrested soon as raids were being conducted for their arrest.
The City Police Officer appreciated Superintendent of Police Rawal, SP CIA and the police team for arresting the accused of big robbery and recovering the looted amount.
He also asked for taking strict action against anti-social elements and criminals.