Police lodge FIRs against dacoits.

Rawalpindi -- Police have registered separate cases against two gangs of dacoits involved in snatching Rs15 million from a Peshawar based businessman and killing a student during a dacoit bid, informed sources on Tuesday.

The First Information Reports (FIRs) were lodged with police stations Cannt under sections 392/302/324 and Punjab Arms Amendment Ordinance 2015/13/20/65 and Sadiqabad under sections 302/396 respectively. However, police investigators have failed in tracing out or arresting any single dacoit so far, sources said.

In the first incident, three dacoits pounced upon a Peshawar based Nehmat Khan, who is associated with import and export business, when he was embarking in his car having a bag in his hands containing Rs15 million at Square on Canning Road. The dacoits snatched a bag from him on which Nehmat opened firing at them while killing a dacoit on the spot and injuring other. However, the two dacoits managed to flee from the scene with amount.

In the second incident, a citizen Danish was travelling on a motorcycle when two dacoits intercepted him on Murree Road outside Hamza Camp and tried to stanch his bike. The dacoits shot dead Danish when he tried to show resistance, sources said. Danish was a 20-year-old student in a college, said sources.

Meanwhile, CPO Faisal Rana held a meeting to review the performance of police investigator in tracing the dacoits involved in killing of student by firing in the area of Sadiqabad. SP Rawal Division Asif Masood briefed the CPO about progress in the case. CPO reprimanded SHO and the SDPO and...