KARACHI: Crimes ratio in Karachi has elevated as police knowledge reveals 44 residents had been killed by muggers, 38 suspected robbers had been killed in ‘encounters’, over 5,600 motorbikes, 518 vehicles snatched/stolen within the first 5 months of 2023.
In keeping with the information compiled by the Sindh police, as many as 44 Karachiites had been murdered by robbers from January to Could this yr. Nonetheless, the variety of individuals killed throughout the identical interval final yr was 26, indicating that murders by robbers had doubled in the course of the present yr.
Police record incidents of cell phone snatching, robberies, bike/automobile snatching and theft within the class of avenue crime. The info of the Sindh police reveals an total state of affairs of great lawlessness within the provincial capital.
The info reveals Karachi witnessed 116 store robberies and 1,713 different robberies in the course of the first 5 months. No less than 518 vehicles had been taken away from residents throughout the identical interval, of which 46 had been snatched at gunpoint and 472 had been stolen. Over 11,500 cell telephones snatched or stolen.
Some 4,441 bikes had been stolen and 1,191 snatched at gunpoint in the course of the first 5 months. The variety of cellphones snatched or stolen throughout the identical interval stands at 11,936. The police claimed to have arrested 477 suspects in injured situation throughout such encounters.
The info means that as a lot as 38 suspected robbers had been killed in alleged police encounters in the course of the January-Could interval. The yr began with the killing of 25-year-old Jahangir Sohail who had been shot lifeless exterior his house on the very first day of the yr, and since then, a citizen is murdered, statistically on common, on nearly each third day.
In plenty of instances, armed criminals shot a number of residents who didn’t resist bodily and even verbally. Nonetheless, the police categorized all such instances as “theft resistance” whatever the truth whether or not a sufferer put up resistance or not.