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| Carjacking on rise as police 'facilitate' gangsters |
| 2011-05-02 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Car theft incidents are yet again on the rise all over the country and in case some lucky man gets his vehicle recovered he has to face multiple hurdles erected by the police. Some 373 cars were stolen from the federal capital in 2009 and this number rose to 393 in 2010. It seems criminals prefer to shift the stolen cars to the capital after tempering them because fake documents can be arranged easily here, said sources on condition of anonymity. One such incident happened to Qasim Sidique Zia, a schoolteacher in Allahabad located over one hundred kilometers from Lahore. He owned a car XLI bearing registration number LEA-9241 being used as a cab. In June 2010 some persons came to him and said they wanted to shift a patient to Lahore. Qasim instructed the driver to shift the patient against charges of Rs 2,800. When they reached Lahore customers said now they had to shift the patient to Islamabad for tests and offered to pay another Rs 8,200 as cab fare. When they reached Islamabad a passenger named Tahir said they needed to relax a while at a hotel and booked a room in a hotel in sector G-7, Sitara Market in the limits of Aabpara Police Station. They allegedly intoxicated the driver and made off with the car. Qasim told Daily Times that a First Information Report (FIR) vide No 175/10 was registered with Aabpara Police Station and police after eight months succeeded to recover the car along with the suspects, but he was informed that the gang had sold the car to another person. Qasim hoped that sooner or later he would get the car. He approached the police and was informed that he would get a cheque from the suspect rather than his car but for that he was asked to patch-up with the suspect. A cheque was handed over to him that later bounced. He approached Aabpara Police but to no avail. The police have allegedly favoured the suspects. |
| Posted by:Fred |