No let-up in street crime in Rawalpindi.

RAWALPINDI -- More than 60 incidents of street crime, including a case under section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, were reported to police in which a magistrate was reportedly threatened of dire consequences and obstructed from proceedings by a man during the trial of a case.

As many as 18 motorcycles, five other vehicles (carry vans and rickshaws), 27 mobile phones were stolen and over Rs1.2 million was snatched at gunpoint during seven incidents of armed robberies reported to the police on Tuesday. Even though Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz had voiced their concern over the surge in incidents of crime in the province, including Rawalpindi district, no crime-fighting strategy has been devised by the newly posted regional police officer (RPO) and the city police officer (CPO) so far.

In the first incident, a magistrate was threatened of dire consequences during court proceeding, allegedly by a complainant. He started shouting in court threatening the judge of dire consequences, in case bail was granted to the suspect.

Tahir Abbas Khan, reader of the court of Mohammad Pervez Khan, lodged a first information report (FIR) with Civil Lines police saying that the trial of a burglary case of Rawat police station was in progress when the police brought the handcuffed suspect in the court...

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