Hi, I am describing two crime scenes. In one of these I was the victim and in another one I was eyewitness.
1st Crime Scene Details:
Date & Time: 6th August 2011, Saturday Night, 11:30 pm.
Location: Muslim Town, on the road adjacent to good luck bakery, at one end of which is Good Luck Chowk, previosuly known as Karmabad Stop, Wahdat Road and on the other end is the canal road.
Description:
After purchasing some groceries from Wahdat Road, I was heading back towards my home on foot which is in the nearby street in Muslim Town. At that time there was loadshedding in the area. When I walked perhaps 100 steps from the entry point of the road mentioned in the location section, I noticed that a motorcycle whose headlight and all other lights were off was advancing towards me at a very slow pace. My sixth sense told me that something is going to happen now as there was no person on the road at that time, there was silence all over the place and due to loadshedding, it was quite dark as well and the situation was ideal for looting and robbing anyone alone. As all this was going in my mind, the boy who was sitting behind the motorcyle dismounted from it and came straight towards me. I noticed there was pistol/mouser in his hand. He came closer to me and told me "Jo kuch hai nikal do werna goli maar doon ga" (Take out whatever you have got oherwise, I will shoot you). I didn't resist because I was sure that If I do, they will not hesitate to shoot me.
So I quietly handed over him my purse containing around 2000 pakistani rupees and my mobile set. I forgot to tell you that the person who was riding the bike maintained a close distance from me and he too had his gun pointed towards me. It was so dark that I could not clearly see the faces of robbers. The only thing, I remember was that the headlight of that motorcycle was of round shape. Having succeeded in their mission, they fled away from the scene and I came back heavy hearted cursing the law and order situation for the common man in Pakistan.
2nd Crime Scene Details:
Date & Time: 13th August 2011, Saturday Night, 11:30 pm.
Location: Muslim Town (Lahore), on the road adjacent to good luck bakery, at one end of which is Good Luck Chowk, previosuly known as Karmabad Stop, Wahdat Road and on the other end is the canal road.
Description: After a week of disturbance, I was recovering from the psychological trauma which was inflicted on me due to last week's robbery. But what's this, I found my self in the same situation, the only difference was that I was not the victim this time but the eyewitness.
I was coming back on my car after purchasing some items from Gourmet Bakers in Ayyubia Market, New Muslim Town, when I crossed the Bilal Masjid and entered A block main road which goes all the way to the road described in the location, I saw a man also on the motorbike going this way. When we rode a few steps more, I saw one motorcycle on which two boys were sitting came out from the side street on the main road and start chasing that poor motorbike guy who was going to be looted by these robbers in a couple of minutes. The situation was that the victim was ahead of all of us with no clue he was being chased, the bike of the robbers was behind that person's bike and I was the last to follow, I was behind these 2 bikes on a safe distance. The robbers bike which was in middle had all its lights turned off. The boy which was sitting behind on that bike had a bag wrapped around its back like college boys do and the shape of the bag was like the one we use for laptop. I thought at that moment that they might be looting mobiles and purses and collecting in that bag to reamin hands free and ready for the next looting.
Ok then I saw that those boys took their bike close to the victim's bike and engaged him in some conversation. They must have threatened him to shoot down if he doesn't stop motorbike. This was happening in all fornt of my eyes. I could not do anything accept to watch helplessly as I had no weapon. They were still riding and I was still driving when the turn came and they turned left on the road which was going to Good Luck Chowk and went out of my sight. I too had to go to Good Luck Bakery and when I took the left turn, I saw that the poor victim had stopped his bike on the left of that road after being threatened of shooting and the robbers bike had stopped on the right of the road (its a single road). The boy with the bag on had dismounted the bike and he was in the middle of the road and was heading towards that poor guy on his bike on the left with the gun pointed towards him.
I had to stop the car as there was no way I could cross them coz the road was blocked due to the boy in the middle. I reversed the car and got away from the scene as I know that my empty hands had no match for the weapons they possessed. Someone might suggest that I would have bumped my car into the boy in the middle, but then who would control the boy sitting on the bike with the gun in his hand. This would be the most daring but most mindless thing I would have done. How could I take risk when I have got a family with 3 small kids for whom I am responsible. What else I could do with no weapon at my disposal. When I reached home, I was constantly thinking of that victim, how he might have handled those devils.
The interesting thing I noticed that the day (saturday), time, location, style of crime is the same in both these crimes. So if I inform police, they can easily catch those criminals by little effort by intelligently planning out a trap for these guys who are looting people in this locality only on the basis of guns they possess.
But the point is that whats the guarantee that if I inform police, they will pursue those criminals only and not trouble me, and what is the guarantee for my protection. So I have dropped the idea of going to police but I am going to post this message to maximum forums, if some concerened person reads this, please take action as with the details provided, it only requires a minor, basic and smart police action from Thana New Muslim Town Police to grab these criminals.
As the statistics show the next crime will be definitely on the same location or the adjacent location i.e. A block of New Muslim Town, same time after 11 pm, same day that is saturday 20th august 2011. (Its only a guess, they might be looting people in this area on daily basis.)
A Common Man...