The police chief of Pakistan’s Sindh province, Riffat Mukhtar Raja, has submitted a petition to the government to remove the head of the Karachi South police station, Senior Superintendent of Police Imran Qureshi, after a high-profile robbery that involved police officers in Karachi. , the news agency reported on November 25.
According to the agency, the head of the southern department tried to interfere in the investigation of a high-profile shopkeeper robbery case in Orangi town (one of the districts of the capital of Sindh, Karachi), in which several police officers were involved.
Notably, police trainee Umer Tariq Bajari and three civilians who were police informants were arrested for direct involvement in the November 21 robbery. Furthermore, one of them, according to the agency, worked for the aforementioned Superintendent Qureshi, and the other two worked for the Orangi police.
The robbery was framed as a police raid on businessman Shakir Khan’s home. The attackers stole 20 million rupees (7 million rubles) and about 900 grams of gold, including in the form of jewelry.
It is reported that apart from the trainee Bajari, none of the police officers involved in the raid have been arrested yet. At the same time, the court has already decided to arrest Bajari until November 26.
It may be recalled that it was earlier reported that cases had been registered against constables Khurram Ali and Farhan Ali, as well as more than ten unidentified police officers and persons involved in the robbery, in connection with the robbery.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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