DADU: An enraged mob resisting arrest of two robbery suspects attacked a joint team of Karachi and Hyderabad police causing damage to mobile vans with clubs and stones in Abdullah Chawla village of Jamshoro on Sunday.

According to the police, they had gone to the village to arrest two suspects, Gul Mohammad Brohi and Khan Mohammad Lashari, wanted in a case pertaining to the robbery of a container along Super Highway a few days ago.

Upon seeing the two suspects being taken into custody, many residents of the village gathered outside the house of Brohi and some of them started arguing with raiding team, sources said. The arguments infuriated some youths who posed stiff resistance to police in taking away the suspects, they said, adding that other people surrounded the police vans. They blocked the way to stop police vans and get the suspects freed.

As police party struggled to make its way out of the village, the mob started pelting stones on mobile vans and attacking them with clubs. Window panes of the mobiles were smashed in the attack.

Joint team of Karachi, Hyderabad police had gone to a Jamshoro village to arrest suspects wanted in robbery case

The police applied baton charge to disperse mobsters but some of the villagers scuffled with members of the police party. Five villagers were slightly injured in the baton charge. During the free-for-all, the mob managed to get the suspects freed.

Two cases registered

The Karachi police personnel and their Hyderabad counterparts lodged separate cases against some nominated and other unknown attackers at the Jamshoro police station for attacking the police team, damaging their mobile vans and forcibly getting the suspects freed.

In his FIR, Inspector Amanullah Leghari of the SITE Area police station of Karachi-East district stated that more than 30 men and women interfered in the discharge of official duty by his team. They attacked the police vans with stones, clubs etc and also resorted to firing in order to get robbery suspects Gul Moham­mad Brohi and Khan Moh­ammad Lashari freed.

He stated that the police team had gone to Goth Abdullah Chawla to arrest Brohi in the case of robbery along Super Highway.

They also smashed the window panes of the car of Mohammad Zubair, the complainant in the case, he added.

Inspector Jan Mohammad Sand of the Bhitai Nagar police station, Hyderabad, in his FIR stated that the house of Brohi was raided on a tip-off about his presence there along with Khan Mohammad Lashari.

He stated that the suspects were arrested but about 26 men and women came out of their houses with sticks and stones in their hands and quarreled with the police. They interfered with the official duty of police and got freed the suspects, he added.

He stated that police mobiles were damaged in the mob attack. He said Gul Mohammad Brohi, his sons, Imdad Brohi and Asif Brohi, Khuda Bux alias Khadu Brohi, Siraj Brohi, Amjad alias Majo Brohi, Imran Brohi, Qadir Bakhsh Magsi, Younus Brohi, Qasim Brohi and 15 unknown women were among the attackers who escaped after getting the suspect freed.

Published in Dawn, July 15th, 2024