Staff Reporter
Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) of Islamabad Police has busted an inter-provincial car lifters gang and recovered six stolen cars worth more than Rs.10 million from it.
Following the directives of IGP Islamabad Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar to curb car theft incidents, DIG (Operations) Waqar Uddin Syed constituted special teams under supervision of SP (Investigation) Malik Naeem Iqbal.
A team headed by DSP CIA Hakim Khan including In-Charge ACLC Sub-Inspector Liaqat Ali, Sub-Inspector Sarfraz Ahmed, ASIs Muhammad Sharif, Muhammad Ashraf, Head Constable Shahzad, Constable Qamer Sajjad and others succeeded to bust a notorious gang of car lifters. The police team nabbed three gangsters identified as Zahid Shah alias Zahdoo s/o Abdul Slam resident of District Mardan, Ibrhaim Shah s/o Saleem Shah resident of Badaber District Peshawar and Tariq s/o Baksh resident of Charsadda Road District Peshawar. They confessed during preliminary investigation to lift cars from twin cities of Islamabad ad Rawalpindi as well as other districts of Punjab and later selling them in various areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
DIG (Operations) Waqar Uddin Syed has appreciated his overall performance of ACLC police team and announced cash prize and commendation certificates for the team members. He has further directed to continue crackdown against car lifter as car theft rate has declined in Capital due to hard work of Islamabad police.
