The Organised Crime Unit (OCU) of the Lahore police has said that a gang of robbers who allegedly looted members of the Sikh community in Gulberg a week ago, are citizens of a neighbouring country.
OCU SP Aftab Phularwan told Dawn on Tuesday that the police examined over 1,000 private cameras to trace the suspects who were living at a rented house in a private housing society near Raiwind and the landlord had not got his tenants/suspects registered with the local police station.
He said the OCU arrested the ringleader of the robbers’ gang, his wife and a cousin, who were “citizens of a neighbouring country”.
In reply to a question whether the suspects belonged to India, he said “not at all”, adding that it would not be wise to name the country.
The SP further said that it was an individual act of criminals and their country’s state or authorities were not involved in this act.
The criminals used to target foreigners and they had committed the street crime multiple times in Lahore, he said.
The SP further said that the suspects had looted Kawal Jeet Singh and his wife while they were shopping in Liberty Market a week ago.
Mr Singh was a senior politician and his wife was a former member of the Punjab Assembly in India, he said, adding that the robbers had deprived them of their cash and jewelry at gunpoint.
He said the Lahore CCPO assigned the task to the OCU (former Crime Investigation Agency) to trace the high-profile robbery case.
