Shootouts leave 30 dead in six months: Faisalabad police claim record figure
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| June 6, 2005 | Monday | Rabi-us-Sani 28, 1426
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FAISALABAD, June 5: As many as 30 alleged gangsters were shot dead during the past six months in 19 incidents, which the district police tag encounters. In January alone, some 12 alleged culprits were killed in shootouts. The police higher-ups insist that the force is not involved in staging fake encounters as is generally believed. However, heirs to the deceased (in some of the cases) still doubt the police claims.
It is pertinent to mention here that the killings of 30 people in encounters during just six months is something new to the law and order scenario, as the local police could not touch the figure even in one year during the past so many decades.
The figure swelled after the take-over of Fiasalabad Range DIG Sajjad Ahmad in the first week of December 2004. The police also claim that the killing of a high number of culprits has brought the crime rate down.
Two notorious criminals, Abdul Razzaq alias Bali and Ramzan, were shot dead on Dec 14 last year by the Bahlak police. The police claimed that they were wanted in cases of hired assassination and dacoity-cum-murder incidents.
The Thikriwala police claimed on Dec 30 that they had killed Falaksher alias Falku, Arif alias Bangar and Allah Rakha alias Zulfiqar Ali in an encounter.
Haider Ali alias Kala was killed and his accomplice, Rashid, arrested after an encounter with the Saddar police on Jan 11, 2005. While the Tandlianwala police shot dead Amir Ali alias Meero in an encounter the same day. The suspects were wanted in several car-snatching incidents, the police said.
Shakhi alias Shaku, who the police claimed was a hardened criminal, was killed in an exchange of fire with the Lundianwala police on Jan 12. Five days later, the Satiana police after an hour-long shootout killed Iqbal and Yousaf.
On Jan 28, two notorious gangsters — Abdul Rauf alias Billa and Muhammad Idrees alias Hafiz — were killed by the Jhang Bazaar police in an encounter.
The People’s Colony police killed two wanted persons, Imran Babar and Arif Mahmood, in a shootout on Jan 31.
Three bandits were killed in an encounter on March 3 this year when they were looting cash and valuables in Saddar police station precinct. The Chak Jhumra police killed two notorious criminals, Qamar and Liaquat, on March 15.
According to Bahlak police, they shot dead hired assassin Amir alias Amiro on 19th. However, his two accomplices managed to escape. While Walayat Ali Shahzad, who was wanted in several cases, was killed in an encounter with the Sargodha Road police on April 21.
Later on April 22, the Jaranwala police killed Abdul Ghaffar alias Bhola in a shootout. Two others, Khadim Husain and Ahmad Ali, were killed in an encounter with the Dijkot police station the same day.
Lundianwala police killed two proclaimed offenders — Muhammad Akram alias Akru and Saifullah — on April 30. Riaz and Umer Hayat were killed while their accomplice, Khushi Muhammad, rounded up by the Saddar Chiniot police after an encounter on May 3.
On May 24, hardened criminal Muhammad Arshad was shot dead by the Bahlak police. Two days later, the Sargodha Road police arrested Khalid Mahmood and Gulzar Ahmad after an encounter.
An unknown outlaw was killed in an encounter with the Tarkhani police on May 17.
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