May 2, 2021
A couple of months since the incident happened, the police claim to have nabbed five out of the six accused in kidnapping of foreigners for ransom
The police attribute their success in the case to the Safe City Project facilities which “played an effective role in helping us get to the bottom of the case.” Photos by Rahat Dar
Early this year, an incident of kidnapping of two foreigners for ransom, which involved cryptocurrency worth Rs 14.7 million, grabbed media headlines. A couple of months later, the Lahore police have finally succeeded in busting a six-member gang of criminals that carried out the kidnapping.
Two foreign nationals robbed of Bitcoins in Lahore
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February 19, 2021
LAHORE: Two foreign nationals, one from Switzerland and the other from Germany were deprived of millions of rupees in Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, local media reported.
According to a first information report (FIR), registered on the complaint of an Islamabad resident, the man identified as Irfan Mahmood invited the foreigners, a Swiss man and a German woman, to Lahore.
According to the police report, the accused along with his accomplices took the foreign nationals from a hotel where they were staying after arrival in Lahore to an undisclosed location with their eyes covered with a piece of cloth.
17 arrested
December 28, 2020
Islamabad : The Islamabad Police arrested 17 criminals from various areas of the city and recovered hashish, wine as well as weapons from their possession, the police spokesman said.
SP (Rural-Zone) Farooq Amjad Butter constituted specials police team under the supervision of DSP Rukhsar Medhi to arrest criminals.
Sihala Police Station arrested four accused, Zakar-Ullah, Yameen Talab, Ibrahim Arif, and Irfan Mehmood and recovered two 30 bore pistols along with ammunitions, 155-gram hashish, and 25 litres wine from their possession.
Loi Bher Police apprehended three accused, Mohsin Shahzad, Noman Khan, and Allah Ditta and recovered three 30 bore pistols along with ammunition from them.