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Diploma holder turns into hardened car lifter
Karachi, Jan 11, 2008: It is hard to comprehend that a toughened car lifter with
expertise in defusing car tracking systems is a graduate and a diploma holder in
electronics. Ghulam Rasool, alias GR, the person in question, said he had to
resort to doing this owing to poverty.
While reviewing some of the major
robberies and car lifting incidents, it was discovered that the people involved
were mostly educated. It was learnt that most degree holders had adopted this
profession owing to unemployment in public and private sectors.
Secondly, these youngsters were influenced by action movies which tend
to project gangsters in an attractive light and they start idolising those
gangsters. So the action movies also contribute to the rise in crime among the
various sections of the society. Thirdly, such gangsters are given a lot of
influence among the society which also contribute to the rise of criminal
tendencies among them.
While discovering the details of the wanted
graduate car lifter, GR (who has been held by the ACLU for the past few weeks)
in the course of the investigation, it was found out that he was the resident of
Panjgor (Balochistan). His parents passed away when he was just a teenager. GR
and his siblings were then adopted by their uncle. He continued to pursue his
studies and in 2002, he became a diploma holder.
After acquiring the
diploma degree, he opened his own electric shop in Panjgor and after spending a
few months was hired at an ice factory owned by a Haji Asoo. While he was
working there, he met with one Sajid, a wanted car lifter and a gang leader who
happened to be Haji Asoo's nephew. GR was told that since he was skilled in
electrical works, he should consider going to Karachi and pursue a career of
defusing tracker systems. When GR realised he did not have enough knowledge on
the particular subject, he was given some guidelines by Sajid who promised him
that he would get paid Rs20,000 per car.
Upon reaching Karachi, Sajid
called one Ahmed (another car lifter from Punjab) who guided him how to defuse a
tracker and within a few weeks GR became an expert at defusing tracker systems.
GR revealed that to fail the tracker system he used to take out the
Air-condition grill and music system of the cars, and then take out the plastic
body where the tracker system was installed and removed its wiring. He said the
entire process takes about five to 10 minutes.
GR said he married his
cousin in December 2003 soon afterwards joined the gang. Initially, he wasn't
paid much and he also got arrested in 2004 from Karachi and was sent to jail.
When his wife found out, she demanded divorce which GR refused. When he was
released after two years, he found out his wife had an affair with another man
and he got separated from her.
In jail, due to his academic
qualification he was appointed as Chief Electrician and was paid Rs5, 000 per
month and three persons were working under him. After spending two years in jail
in came to the court for hearing dates when another criminal told him about
Abdul Ghafoor, a wanted car-lifter belonging to Turbat and he decided to join
his gang
When he joined Ghaffor's gang, he was told to defuse the car no
matter what or else he will be shot dead immediately. In the year 2007 he
snatched a Toyota Corolla GLI in Nazimabad and within a short span of five
minutes he tried to defuse the car's tracker but he couldn't find the device
despite checking it at various locations inside the car. Mistakenly, he cut the
CNG relay wire which rendered the vehicle immobile. During this, he saw police
approaching him afterwhich he fled the scene. Later, he had a dispute with
Ghafoor and quit his gang to join with another criminal Iqbal Bil belonging from
Turbat. It is reported that he snatched more than 50 vehicles while working with
Bil.
GR further stated that when he was imprisoned for the first time he
thought that it's not life but when he reviewed his family background he decided
to adopt this profession due to money he used to get. He said for defusing
tracker in cars he was paid more than Rs30, 000 and for a Shezor Truck he was
paid about Rs20, 000 on each truck. Some spots were Quaidabad area for trucks,
while cars were snatched from Posh localities like Clifton. These vehicles were
transported through RCD Highway and Gulbai Chowk was their decided meeting
point.
He stated that due to heavy patrolling on highways by the ACLU
staff it was hard for his gang to transport those stolen vehicles from there and
while they tried an alternative route, they were nabbed by the
ACLU.
salis.perwaiz@thenews.com.pk
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| Education News | | Updated: 24 May, 2012 |
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