Robbers attacked guard to steal cables and wires

RAA, a 24-year-old Pakistani is accused of attacking a company’s guard and stealing electric cables and copper bars and wires weighing 220kg, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

SBM, 28, Bangladeshi, is accused of possessing stolen items.

MAK, 54, Pakistani, testified that at around 5am last October 10 he received a phone call from the guard telling him that he was attacked by unidentified people who then stole thing from the company.

“I rushed to the company and saw police were investigating. I checked what was robbed. On October 21, I got a call from the police asking me to check a pick up van loaded with stolen things,” he testified.

ST, 22, Nepali guard, testified that about ten people came to the company’s site at around 1am and enquired about someone called Kashif.

“I was sitting in a chair when they came. I told them Kashif is not in now as he is in the morning shift. The group then held me and took me into a caravan by force where they tied my hands and legs with plastic ropes. They threatened to beat me up and kill me if I called for help and thencovered my eyes with a piece of cloth.

“After about three hours I heard the sound of a vehicle moving out. Then I freed my tied hands and legs. It was about 5am when Kashif came. We called the police and went to check what things were taken by the robbers,” he testified.

Following the complaint,  Sharjah Police stopped two pickup vans loaded with things similar to the stolen items and referred them to Dubai Police, testified Sergeant Saeed Al Kaabi.

The two drivers claimed that they had bought the things from two people. Sharjah Police arrested the two sellers who admitted to committing the robbery after attacking the guard with four people in the company located in Dubai Studio City.

“We have called a pickup driver who came to the company and we loaded the cables and bars in his pickup and in the mini bus we had,” they admitted.

The court will reconvene on May 9.
 

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