These thieves should all be shot on the spot.
Ministers, police involved in carjacking business
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Ministers, police involved in carjacking business
- Four groups including Shahbaz Gharhi Group, Liyah Group, Mardan Group and Azakhel Group active in Rawalpindi and Islamabad
By Ikram Junaidi
ISLAMABAD: The carjacking has not only become a most troubling crime in the federal capital but all over the country as sitting ministers, police officers and influential personalities are involved in this heinous business making impossible any action against the carjackers.
Former Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in a report sent to Ministry of Interior disclosed that a sitting minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province was protecting the carjackers, however the new SSP has closed this file, it is learnt.
Four groups: According to sources, presently four groups of carjackers are active in Rawalpindi and Islamabad and after lifting the cars they shift them to KP. These groups include Shahbaz Gharhi Group, Liyah Group, Mardan Group and Azakhel Group. They shift the jacked cars to KP and make call to their owners to get the vehicle back after paying some money, said the sources, adding, and in most of the cases when the owner along with money, reaches KP, they kidnap him for ransom.
They said now the owners had started informing the police about such calls, but whenever federal or Rawalpindi police got information about the carjackers and teams were sent to arrest them the KP police protected the outlaws.
An officer of federal police on condition of anonymity said the federal police arrested a carjacker from Mardan, but the provincial police officials reached there and at gunpoint forced them to release him and return back to federal capital.
Another police officer said that in the past police team had gone to KP to arrest the carjackers, but the KP police arrested it and shifted to the residence of a sitting minister who asked them angrily how they dared to come to KP and arrest his close ones.
He said when the federal police officials told him that they had gotten correct information by tracing phone calls of the carjackers, the minister said those persons were not thieves and even if they had done it, he would not allow the police to arrest them as they belonged to his constituency.
A Honda City car bearing registration No LRR-577 was stolen from Lahore and its owner got calls from a person who said that he was calling from Kohat and if he would pay Rs 250,000, his car would be given him back.
A police officer said former SSP Tahir Alam Khan had sent a report to Ministry of Interior about this crime but new SSP Muhammad Yousaf Malik has closed the file and instructed the police to increase the security in the city, but as long as the operation will not be conducted against the group heads this crime could not be curbed.