Dacoits shoot at, kill session judge during house robbery bid

May 31, 2023

Rawalpindi-A gang of unidentified dacoits have gunned down a  session judge apparently over showing resistance during a house robbery bid in overseas block of Bahria Town Phase 8, informed sources on Tuesday. A suspected dacoit also suffered bullet injuries when the judge opened firing on dacoits in a bid to release his son from their captivity in TV lounge of the house, they said. Police held the injured robber and moved him to hospital where doctors are trying to save life of the criminal, sources said. The incident took place within limits of Police Station Rawat wherein a case has been registered against the fleeing robbers, they said.

Meanwhile, City Police Officer Rawalpindi Syed Khalid Mehmood Hamdani has taken notice of horrible incident and ordered SP Saddar Division to trace out the robbers immediately, according to a police spokesman Inspector Sajjad Ul Hassan. According to sources, a gang of five dacoits having sophisticated weapons into hands entered TV lounge of house of Session Judge Sardar Amjad Ishaq, posted in Azad Kashmir, by cutting the grill of window near 2:40am on Tuesday. They said the robbers cut the wires of WiFi besides disconnecting the CCTV. 

(The Nation)

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