Street criminals gang held, looted items recovered

Islamabad: The Noon police have arrested a gang comprising of six criminals who were involved in over a dozen incidents of street crime in the capital city.

The police also recovered snatched motorbikes, mobile phones and weapons along with ammunition from them.

According to the details, SSP (Operations) Islamabad police, Dr. Syed Mustafa Tanweer had categorically directed all the Zonal SPs to accelerate their efforts to arrest the accused involved in street crime and snatching incidents and recover the looted items.

Following these directions, SP (Industrial-Area) Fida Hussain Satti constituted police teams under supervision of SDPO Sabzi Mandi, Muhammad Nawaz Bhatti. A Noon Police team headed by SHO Noon police station Sub-Inspector Ishtaiq Hussain Shah, SI Muhammad Imran and other police officials ensured high vigilance in the area and succeeded in nabbing six snatchers involved in numerous snatching as well as street crime incidents in the twin cities.

The accused have been identified as Aleem Khan alias Haji (Gang leader), Rizwan, Muhib Ullah, Shahid Atta, Meh Zuban and Salamat Khan alias Faisal. The Police team also recovered eight motorbikes, 16 mobile phones and six pistols along with ammunition from their possession.