Four robbers of 'White Corolla Gang' remanded in police custody for two days

A judicial magistrate on Thursday remanded four suspects, said to be members of a notorious Afghan robbery gang that committed burglaries using a white Corolla vehicle, in police custody for interrogation.

Investigation officer (IO) Tariq Mehmood produced the arrested men, Muhammad Khan, Dad Mohammad, Noor Ahmed, alias Noorullah, and Mohammad Hassan —before the judicial magistrate (Central) and requested their two-week physical remand in police custody for interrogation in two cases pertaining to a house robbery and encounter with police.

The IO stated that the Taimuria police arrested the four suspects on October 2 in Nazimabad No 3. He said the alleged gang had engaged in an encounter with the police when it was intercepted upon entry into the Central district with the intention of committing a robbery on September 28, adding that in retaliatory firing, their accomplice Khan Muhammad, alias Mullah, was killed and Hassan was injured but they had managed to flee the scene.

He claimed that during the interrogation, the suspects admitted to their involvement in a house burglary in North Nazimabad Block-N on September 26, an FIR of which was lodged at the Taimuria police station. The IO said the suspects were required to be further interrogated to recover the stolen belongings and arrest their absconding accomplices.

The magistrate handed over the custody of the suspects to the police for two days with a direction to the IO to produce them before the court upon the completion of their remand. An encounter with police case was registered at the Taimuria police station under the sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 324 (attempted murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). A separate case was lodged for a house burglary under the Section 395 (punishment for dacoity) of the PPC on the complaint of Farhan Hussain.