‘39 criminals shot dead in encounters in Dec 2014/March 2015 in Hyderabad’

HYDERABAD: During the first year of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Irfan Baloch’s posting in Hyderabad, around 39 suspected and convicted criminals were shot dead and around 200 were injured in more than one hundred police encounters.
The police action helped reduce drastically street crimes, robberies, kidnappings and car/motorbike snatching.
According to the statistics obtained from the SSP Office, most of the encounters happened in the limits of Hatri police station in which eight suspects or convicts were killed from December 2014 to March 2015.
Three suspected outlaws were killed in an exchange of fire with the police on December 21, 2014, and as many on February 10, 2015, in the limits of PS Hatri.
Similarly, 5 suspects were killed in the police action in the jurisdiction of PS Naseem Nagar, 4 each in PS SITE and PS Bhitai Nagar and 2 each in PS A-Section, PS B-Section and PS-Tando Yousuf.
In a raid on January 10 this year to arrest a gang of notorious kidnappers in a locality in Mirpurkhas district, the Hyderabad police killed 4 criminals while 2 police inspectors and 2 constables were also martyred in the encounter. The incident happened in the limits of PS-Mehmoodabad in Mirpurkhas.
Likewise, the highest number of outlaws were injured in the police encounters in the remits of B-Section, Pinyari and Bhitai Nagar. From January 14 to September 7 as many as 22 suspected and convicted criminals were shot and injured in the exchange of fire with the B-Section police.
January 2 to September 2, some 19 outlaws were injured by the Pinyari police and as many by the PS-Bhitai Nagar from December 12, 2014, to November 11. The Hali Road police shot and injured 16 criminals in separate encounters from December 4, 2014, to October 5 this year.
Some 11 suspects were injured in the exchange of fire with the Sakhi Pir police, 10 with A-Section police, 9 with SITE police, 8 with Hussainabad police and 7 with City police followed by others. There are 27 police stations in Hyderabad district.