By U.Zee
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police have accelerated it’s campaign against professional beggars and their handlers and arrested 263 handlers, 2289 professional beggars during the last four month.
Following orders of IGP Islamabad, Qazi Jamil-ur-Rehman, under supervision of SSP Operations Dr. Syed Mustafa Tanweer, Islamabad police have launched a massive campaign against professional alm-seekers and their handlers to curb this menace from the federal capital.
The police officials said that this campaign will continue in the Capital until elimination of the menace. They said the officials got the tip through Safe City Cameras and other intelligence sources about presence of the network of beggars’ handlers and got the information about their locations and kept them under watch.
They said that these nabbed persons had divided different residential areas, traffic signals and main chowks of the city for begging activities. “They also used to pick up men, women and children from Katchi Abadies and drop them at various traffic signals, residential areas and chowks in a mazda van, taxi and motorcycles†they added.
They maintained that, the handlers used to get share from them and support them in case of any issue. The Police have registered cases against all the accused under Act relating to human smuggling and sections for involving women/children in begging activities, the officials said further.
SSP Operations Dr. Syed Mustafa Tanweer has said that this campaign will continue under supervision of Additional SP Islamabad Farhat Abbas Kazmi. He also directed all zonal SPs to accelerate this campaign and continue crackdown against this menace in their respective areas.
