ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police claimed to have arrested four robbers during a successful raid in a house at sector G-6 on Saturday.
On receiving information about the presence of robbers in a house at sector G-6, DIG Operations Waqar Uddin Syed and SP (City) along with contingents of police cordoned the house.
The person took out weapons and threatened to kill an old man in the house. Police successfully tackled the situation and succeeded to nab four robbers. Further investigation is underway from them to know about their actual motives and whereabouts, the DIG (Operations) added.
Meanwhile, Lauding the police force over the action, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said that the Islamabad police took a timely action against the accused.
“The arrested accused hails from South Punjab and the authorities are checking their criminal record,” the interior minister said.
Sheikh Rasheed said that the government would not tolerate any negligence from the security authorities in safeguarding the lives and properties of the public.
It is pertinent to mention here that Islamabad police have come under fire over killing a youngster, Osama Satti in an alleged police encounter after allegedly refused to stop at a police check-point.
Police told media that the officials followed a suspicious ‘vehicle with tinted glasses and tried to stop it many times’.
They claimed that the department received a complaint on Friday night for a robbery bid in Shams Colony by some dacoits in a car. The vehicle was followed by CTF officials who were on patrolling duty in the area, police added.
However, after many failed attempts to stop the car, the personnel shot fires on the tyre but unfortunately, the driver received two bullets to his body which later led to his death.
