Probe into robbery and theft sought

PESHAWAR: The Nowshera police has yet to trace, identify or arrest the culprits of a robbery which happened some two months back in a gated colony in Nowshera Cantt when another burglary took place at the house of one of the family members of the same victim in the Nowshera city a week ago.

The victim was a senior officer of Provincial Management Service (PMS) Muhammad Khalid (BS grade 20) who has served as director general, deputy commissioner and secretary in departments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.

On November 10, last year, he lodged a first information report at the Badrashi Police Station, Nowshera.He had stated that some five to six armed men entered his house located in Armour Cooperative Housing Society Nowshera at midnight on November 9 and took him and his family members hostage along with their personal security guard.

The robbers remained there for about three hours and took all valuables they found in different rooms of the house and loaded it onto a vehicle they had parked on the premises of the bungalow.

Besides cash, the complainant said, the robbers took away about 45 tolas gold ornaments, two laptops, a pistol and unstitched cloth.Haji Umar Bakhsh, father of Muhammad Khalid, told The News they got registered an FIR against the unidentified robbers.

He informed the deputy commissioner and district police officer of Nowshera who assured him full cooperation and the police started investigation from different angles. His son had also written to the KP inspector general of police.

The family members were yet to recover from the trauma and agony of their previous robbery when another burglary took place at the house of Awais Paracha, brother-in-law of Muhammad Khalid, in Nowshera city on December 24.

“This time, my daughter’s house was looted in broad daylight at about 1.00 PM at a busy street in Nowshera city,” Umar Bakhsh said and added that the alleged robbers were seen in the CCTV camera installed in the same street.

He said his daughter had come to his home in the Armour Colony while his grandson had locked the house while leaving the house for some work.

When contacted by phone, SP Investigation of Nowshera Alamzeb Khan told this scribe that the police had arrested many suspects and were investigating the robbery at the Armour Colony while a joint investigation team had also been constituted to properly interrogate suspects and reach to the real culprits.

He said the Nowshera police had shared some developments with the victim’s family but the police did not share important clues or findings of the investigation before reaching the real culprits.