KARACHI, Nov 13: Police on early Monday morning arrested a son of an industrialist for his alleged involvement in mobile phone snatchings following a shootout on Shaheed-i-Millat Road.
Educated at the Lawrence College in Ghora Gali and the British School, Junaid Abbas, 19, son of Asad Abbas, has up to 200 acts of cellphone snatching to his name, said SHO Aurenzeb of the Ferozabad police station. The snatchings had been carried out since April, he added.
Explaining the circumstances that led to his arrest, the SHO said Junaid deprived some people of their cellphones in the DHA area on late Sunday night.
The complainants informed the police helpline 15 about the incident. The suspects could not be found in the DHA, but over an hour later they were spotted at the Tariq Road intersection of Shaheed-i-Millat Road by a police party.
Following a shootout the suspects were arrested by the Ferozabad police.
They were identified as Junaid Abbas, Altaf, Munir and Rashid. Four TT pistols and 35 cellphones were seized from them, the SHO said.
Munir and Rashid have several cases of murder and possession of illegal arms registered against them at Korangi and Zaman Town police stations.
Junaid owns a floor mill in the Site area where he hired security guards and used them in cellphones snatching.
They also used to dump the cellphones in the floor mill. END DAWN REPORT
This is Pathetic, I could have understood if these were unemployed youth or homeless persons, but an industrialist's son? What on earth is going on? Someone who has access to three square meals a day, a roof over their head, which is more than the average man, woman and child on the streets of Karachi could ever ask for is involved in cellphone robberies. Worse, he has the security gaurds from his flour mill in SITE do the dirty work.
What has the world come to, is there not even an iota of morality and ethics left, or are we so "bighrofied" as a society that that the distinction between right and wrong are increasingly becoming blurred?
Copyright C. Abdulrahman Rafiq
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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3 comments:
That's what crime is about. When someone does it because they are hungry, it is not something that should be prosecuted as crime. That's what Islam teaches if you actually pay attention to what the canon has to say.
When you think about it--and from the report--it seems like this is a case of someone getting their jollies out of breaking the law...
My only comment is that this kind of street crime was really, really low up to the early '90s. I don't know what has happened since, but that's how it looks from where I sit.
It is indeed a crime which was common place in the early 90's.
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