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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Police still unable to recover Shahbaz Taseer
* High profile criminals rounded up from jails to grill for information
By Imran Chaudhry
LAHORE: The Punjab Police and other law enforcement agencies could not ensure the recovery of Shahbaz Taseer despite the passage of more than three days of his abduction, but rounded up more than 70 high profile criminals from different jails to investigate the incident.
Sources told Daily Times that the criminals who were rounded up were connected to the organised gangs, which were involved in the kidnapping for ransom cases. The police have shifted them to different interrogation centres to grill them and understand the nature of Shahbaz’s abduction in view of the modus operandi adopted by the criminals in the incident. The police also wanted to understand the possible hideouts, escape routes and other activities of criminals, who were still out of the radar despite claims by the law enforcement agencies that the abductors were still in the city.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani visited the residence of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer on Monday to assure his family of the government help to recover Shahbaz Taseer from the custody of the abductors.
The prime minister and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had previously visited the family of Shahbaz Taseer and assured that the government would engage all local and federal security agencies in the rescue mission and they would ensure his early release.
However, the police and law enforcement agencies could not make any breakthrough in the investigation despite claims of having intelligence details about where Shahbaz Taseer might have been kept by the abductors.
The inspector general of Police Punjab had constituted five police teams to probe the case on different grounds with the help of local and federal agencies. They had also rounded up a number of people from different areas of the city to conduct the investigation but none of them could provide them with any solid information.
Meanwhile, the police reportedly collected fingerprints details, which were taken by the forensic experts yet nothing was publicised about the outcome of the report.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk