Police encounter: Special team constituted to acquire criminal record of suspect

The police department has constituted a special team for acquiring the criminal record of a suspected member of a dacoits’ gang, Abbas, who was killed during a police shootout in Defence area on Friday, sources close to the investigation told media on Monday. South Operation and Investigation Police held a session to probe into an alleged gun battle between suspected dacoits and police officials in Defence’sGizri in Karachi on Friday. The sources said that a special team has been constituted to acquire the criminal record of a suspect, Abbas, after serious reservations were raised by his employers where he used to work as a servant. Investigation officials said that the alleged criminals killed in the police action were members of an organised gang of more than 30 dacoits. Sources said that a case had been filed against the head of the gang, Ghulam Mustafa, in AhmedpurSharqia [East] in 1995 and the gang used to carry out robberies in Karachi during the winter season and later went in to hide in Punjab suburbs.South Zone police constituted six teams to arrest the gang members, whereas, four accomplices of the deceased suspects have been sent to the central prison, sources added. On Friday, Karachi police had claimed to have killed five ‘dacoits’ in an alleged gun battle in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase IV.