Residents of DIKhan on Saturday voiced their concerns over the soaring crime rates and urged to chalk out a joint strategy to launch a massive operation against those involved in street crimes. The residents said that the police department should utilize all available resources to control street crimes as the city witnessed a hike in crimes of various nature causing stress and distress in public. They said that the Inspector General Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) should visit DIKhan and direct the District Police officials to take stern action against such elements to ensure the protection of the citizens.
As per reports, there were several incidents in different parts of the city in recent weeks where armed criminals, mostly on motorbikes, shot, killed and injured people during robberies, mostly when faced resistance. During the last few days in the incidents of robbery, three armed robbers snatched a motorbike, Rs 90,000 cash and a mobile phone from a citizen Ghulam Farid, a resident of Jabbar-wala at gunpoint in the limits of Saddar police station.
During another incident, a citizen was deprived of a large sum of money when three armed robbers, snatched Rs. 2 million at gunpoint from the owner of a petrol pump Malik Khan Zaman in the limits of Saddar police station. Similarly, During another incident of robbery, a citizen named Iqbal Dutani was killed and another sustained injuries after dacoits indiscriminately opened fire on their car on Dera-Daraban road near Saggu Bridge.—APP
