In Punjab’s Chakwal city, two suspects were killed in an alleged encounter with the Crime Control Department (CCD) Chakwal, while a CCD official was arrested on the charge of killing a minor girl and injuring her brother and father.

According to the report, sources said that 39-year-old Adeel Ahmed, his wife Dr Sidra Khan, their 9-year-old daughter Hania Ahmed and 10-year-old son Affan Ahmed came under attack during a robbery when CCD policemen, mistaking them for robbers, opened fire on their vehicle. As a result, Hania died on the spot, while Adeel and Affan were seriously injured. Dr Sidra Khan remained safe.

During this, both robbers left their motorcycle and fled the scene. Initially, a case was not registered against the CCD official in the FIR, but later the FIR was amended and Section 302 was added, under which the official was arrested.

On Thursday night, both robbers were killed in an encounter with the CCD. They were identified as Muhammad Abbas, a resident of Shahdara, and Muhammad Fayyaz, a resident of Ferozewala.

A senior CCD official claimed that both robbers were involved in robbery incidents. The killed robbers were involved in an exchange of fire with CCD officials while robbing the Australian citizen’s family.

He said both robbers were involved in more than a dozen incidents in different areas of Punjab and had also been indicted in the past. Muhammad Abbas was also involved in two robbery incidents in Chakwal in 2021.

They shot a CCD police official in Gujranwala on June 3, snatched a motorcycle from a person in Sheikhupura on June 6 and, while coming to Chakwal, robbed a shopkeeper in Khewra.

The official said that after reaching Chakwal, the robbers stayed in a mosque near Sotwal village on the Chakwal-Choa Saidan Shah Road.

The official further said that Abbas would commit crimes while posing as the wife of his accomplice Fayyaz. Both robbers, disguised as husband and wife, identified their targets during the day and then carried out crimes at night.

It may be recalled that on Wednesday night in Chakwal, Crime Control Department (CCD) officials opened fire on a vehicle after mistaking it for robbers’ car, as a result of which a 9-year-old girl was killed and her father and brother were injured.

Police sources and family members had said that 39-year-old Australian citizen Adeel Ahmed, a resident of Dhudial village, had recently come to Pakistan with his wife Dr Sidra Khan, son Affan Ahmed and daughter Hania Ahmed.

After arriving in Pakistan, the couple went for Hajj and returned from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning. Adeel’s father-in-law had arranged a dinner for the families of both his daughters.

After having dinner, Adeel left his father-in-law’s house at 11:40pm. His wife wanted to meet her uncle, whose house is adjacent to the CCD station.

Ali Ijaz said that when they stopped their rented car in front of my house, two robbers arrived on a motorcycle. One robber, who had a pistol, came near the car and told Adeel and Sidra to hand over their jewellery and cash.

He said his niece handed over her jewellery worth Rs500,000 to the robber. As soon as the robber took the jewellery, he was seen by a CCD official who was returning to the station after eating outside.

After that, the police official reached the station, snatched an SMG gun from a constable and opened fire on the robbers, who also returned fire.

Both robbers left their motorcycle at the scene and fled. After the firing, Adeel also drove the car away.

The police official said that as soon as the policemen saw the car immediately speeding away, they thought the vehicle belonged to the robbers and opened indiscriminate fire on the car.

CCD officials also chased the car on motorcycles but could not catch it because Adeel drove the vehicle at high speed and managed to reach the gate of his father-in-law’s house, where he lost control of the car and it crashed into the gate.

Due to the collision, he was also badly injured. The injured were immediately taken to the District Headquarters Hospital, where his daughter Hania was declared dead, while Adeel and his son Affan were referred to Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi, where both underwent surgery.

CCD Regional Officer Rawalpindi Hassan Jahangir Wattoo and District Police Officer Chakwal Kashif Zulfiqar met the bereaved family and assured them of immediate legal action against those responsible.

The DPO said this was an extremely tragic incident and that a JIT had been formed, which would soon submit its report.

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