Security guard breaks 90 bank lockers, makes away with millions

Karachi
A security guard of a private security company deployed at a bank in Gulshan-e-Iqbal broke around 90 lockers there on Sunday night and took away millions in cash as well gold ornaments and other precious items.
Nawaz Gul, a security guard of the Ultimate Security Services firm, was deployed at Meezan Bank’s Disco Bakery branch in Block 2 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal in the night shift.
He entered the bank with another accomplice and used cutting torches to break the lockers.
Following the incident, many customers who were availing a locker at the bank reached there and quarreled with the bank staff over the losses they had suffered.
SP Gulshan-e-Iqbal police Abid Qaimkhani told The News that 90 of the 144 lockers at the bank were opened by the security guard and his accomplice with the help of cutting torches. “The bank staff is still busy calculating how much cash and other items are missing by talking to the customers,” he added.
The official two security guards of the Ultimate Security Services, Nawaz Gul and Tajir Hussain, were on duty at the bank. “CCTV camera footage shows that at around 6:55pm, Nawaz Gul, who is from Parachinar area of the Kurram tribal agency, entered the bank with another person,” he added.
“After entering the bank, they used black tape to block CCTV cameras from recording their activities.”
The SP said the bank staff found out about the robbery on Monday morning when it arrived there and found the lockers open.
He said Gul and his accomplice had used the back exit, which opened into an apartment building, to escape and also took away their cutting torches and other equipment with them.
The official said there were three types of lockers at the bank – small ones for keeping up to Rs400,000, medium ones with the capacity of keeping Rs700,000 and the larger ones were used to an amount exceeding Rs 1 million.
He said all the lockers were insured and though no figures had been provided to police by the bank administration, according to estimates millions of rupees and ornaments had been robbed.
Following the robbery, the Gulshan police raided at house of the security guard and arrested his friend and roommate while two other people including an official of the security company was also taken into custody for questioning.
Qaimkhani said Gul apparently had no ties with militants, but the police was also investigating this aspect as well.
He added that the police had beefed up surveillance at the exit routes of the city including bus terminals and railway stations to arrest the robbers.