A group of criminals, who robbed houses they entered disguised as domestic workers, was arrested in Khanpur on Sunday.
Saddar police said the group members all belonged to Faisalabad and had committed several robberies across the Punjab, most of these in Lahore.
Station House officer Rana Muhammad Arshad said that the group members worked independently. They would start working as domestic help, or enter houses either pretending to be servants in the neighbouring house “visiting to deliver some message or food”, or as potential servants seeking work.
He said after several complaints received by Rahim Yar Khan District Police Officer Sohail Zafar Chattha, the DPO had ordered a crackdown against such professional criminals.
On Sunday, police arrested four people.
The station house officer said that preliminary investigation had revealed that the four people also recruited their female accomplices in several houses to get information and later rob them, mostly in the absence of the owners.
He said police had traced over 12 robberies against the four people.
He said those arrested had also confessed to a recent robbery in Lahore, where valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees were taken.
The station house officer said that police had obtained a two-day physical remand of those arrested by the magistrate. He said investigations were in progress.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 3rd, 2014.