-8 cars recovered
ISLAMABAD: Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) of Islamabad police has busted two gang of car lifters and recovered eight cars from it worth hundreds of thousands of rupees , a police spokesman said.
Following the directions of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar Khan, DIG (Operations) Waqar Ud din Syed assigned task to SP (Investigation) Dr. Syed Mustafa Tanveer to accelerate efforts against auto-thieves and car-lifters.
Following his directions, special team was constituted under supervision of In-charge ACLC Sub- Inspector Liaqat Ali, Sub-Inspector Sarfraz Ahmed, ASIs Waheed Ahmed, Muhammad Sharif, Sajid Mehmood, along with other officials. This team achieved a success and apprehended four members of two car lifters gangs. The gangsters have been identified as Zubair Khan resident of Khanna Dak, Muhammad Waheed resident of Khanna Dak, Kamran resident of Charsada, and Zahoor Khan resident of Peshawar while police recovered eight stolen car from their possession. During the preliminary investigation, they confessed to lift these vehicles from various areas of twin cities and sold in KPK. Cases have been registered against the nabbed persons and further investigation is underway from them
IGP Islamabad Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar Khan and DIG (Operations) Waqar Uddin Syed have appreciated the performance of ACLC police team and directed the officials to intensify efforts to curb car and motorbike lifting incidents.