Two hardened criminals wanted for shooting the close relatives of two policemen and other heinous crimes were killed by their own accomplices during an exchange of fire with the Mandi Bahauddin police in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to a police spokesperson, the Civil Lines Police received a tip-off about the presence of some criminals near a drain on the outskirts of Mandi Bahauddin city, that they were receiving advance money (supari) for killing a person.
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He said that when the police reached the spot and surrounded the area, the criminals opened fire on them, on which retaliatory action was taken. After the firing stopped, the police found the bodies of two criminals, “who were shot dead by their own accomplices”.
The victims were later identified as Rizwan alias Jani and Imran, both residents of Mandi Bahauddin, who were wanted by the police for the brutal murder of a young boy, the younger brother of a policeman. The criminals also allegedly shot and injured the son of Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) chief Aamir Shaheen Gondal in Mandi Bahauddin.
Sources said that the criminals had killed the younger brother of a policeman and injured the son of an officer to avenge an earlier shootout with the police. The police also found arms and bullets near the bodies of the accused.
On the report of Sub-Inspector Muhammad Nawaz (of the same police station), a case was registered under Sections 302, 324, 353, 186, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code in the Civil Lines Police Station and an investigation was started, while the search for the accused was started. The search for the remaining three suspects was on.
