Criminals including four bike-lifters held

Islamabad: Islamabad Police have held 12 criminals including four members of a bike-lifting gang and recovered seven stolen motorcycles worth hundreds of thousands of rupees, fake document, huge cache of narcotic as well as weapons from their possession, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

SSP (Operations) Dr. Syed Mustafa Tanveer had assigned a task to Zonal SPs to accelerate efforts against bike-lifters.

Following his directions, SP (Rural-Zone), Nosherwan constituted a special team under supervision of DSP Abid Ikram including SHO Koral police station Shokat Abbasi, ASI Jaffar Ali and others.

This team apprehended four members of the bike-lifter gang later identified as Zahid, Adnan, Nabeel, and Asad and recovered seven stolen motorbikes and bogus document from their possession.

During the preliminary investigation, they confessed having lifted these motorcycles from various areas of Koral police station and further investigation is underway from him.

Furthermore SP (Saddar-Zone) Farooq Amjad Butter constituted a special police team under the supervision of DSP Sajjad Bukhari including SHO Golra Asim Ghafar along with other officials which apprehended 3 drug-peddlers including two ladies and later identified as Waqar Ahmed, Kalsoom Bibi and Amana Bibi and recovered 12.610 kilogram hashish from their possession.