{"id":10433,"date":"2023-10-03T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/4-street-criminals-involved-in-murder-of-cleric-in-karachis-gulistan-i-jauhar-arrested-police\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:05:56","slug":"4-street-criminals-involved-in-murder-of-cleric-in-karachis-gulistan-i-jauhar-arrested-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/4-street-criminals-involved-in-murder-of-cleric-in-karachis-gulistan-i-jauhar-arrested-police\/","title":{"rendered":"4 street criminals involved in murder of cleric in Karachi\u2019s Gulistan-i-Jauhar arrested: police"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karachi police said on Tuesday that it has arrested four suspected street criminals on charges of killing<\/a> a religious scholar during a robbery bid in the Gulistan-i-Jauhar area last month.<\/p>\n

Unidentified assailants had shot dead Ziaur Rehman, the administrator of the Jamia Abi Bakar madressah in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, on Sep 12.<\/p>\n

According to the police, the scholar had arrived at a park in Block-14 near the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) office for a routine walk when suspects opened fire at him. He suffered critical bullet injuries and was transported to the Jinnah Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.<\/p>\n

Karachi police chief Khadim Hussain Rind had later said in a statement<\/a> that the Counter-Terrorism Department collected evidence and their preliminary investigations suggested that Indian intelligence agency RAW was involved in the killing.<\/p>\n

Addressing a press conference today, District East DIG Azfar Mahesar said investigators had traced a network of street criminals involved in the scholar\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

He elaborated that the cleric was waylaid by robbers near his residence in Block 14 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar, close to the FBR office. \u201cDuring the robbery attempt, the cleric apprehended one of the suspects but his accomplices opened indiscriminate fire at him,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey used both a 30-bore pistol and a 9mm pistol,\u201d the DIG said, adding that weapons confiscated from the suspects were forensically matched with bullet casings found at the crime scene.<\/p>\n

Mahesar further stated that the investigation team led by him had conducted raids at 70 places for the arrest and more than 100 suspects were probed during the process. A federal-level sensitive institution and Counter-Terrorism Department officials were also part of the team.<\/p>\n

The investigation revealed that a network of criminals, run by the held suspects, was \u201cactive\u201d in the provincial capital, he added and promised that the police would take the mastermind of the network to task.<\/p>\n

He DIG concluded that the arrested suspects had confessed to several street crimes as well.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karachi police said on Tuesday that it has arrested four suspected street criminals on charges of killing a religious scholar during a robbery bid in the Gulistan-i-Jauhar area last month. Unidentified assailants had shot dead Ziaur Rehman, the administrator of the Jamia Abi Bakar madressah in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, on Sep 12. According to the police, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t