Gold robbery accused identified

Gold robbery accused identified
Two prosecution witnesses identified three of the accused allegedly involved in robbing gold from a workshop in Sarafa Bazar worth Rs 45 million.
PWs Mohammed Nauman and Noor Ali identified three suspects Agha Nasir, Mohammed Kashif and Shahzad who were produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate Sadruddin Bohyo.
When the case came up for hearing on Tuesday the investigation officer sought extension in the remand. The court, however, sent the three suspects to jail till February 4 with the direction to IO to submit challan on the next date of hearing.
Mohammed Nauman and Noor Ali, the employees of the workshop, told the court that they were being forced to remain silent at gunpoint by the accused. They said that four armed men barged into the workshop in Sarafa Bazar, Kharadar, and took eight workers of the workshop hostage at gunpoint for an hour and decamped with 15 kg of gold worth around Rs 45 million.
According to prosecution, the workers were busy in the workshop owned by Mohammed Muneer when the suspects robbed maximum quantity of gold kept at the workshop.
Interestingly, there was no security guard or lock on the main entrance of the building and no close circuit camera was installed at the main door.
The Kharadar police registered FIR No. 17/2010 under sections 392 (punishment for robbery) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the workshop owner.