RAWALPINDI, May 23: Drug traffickers serving time in Adiala
Jail were discovered continuing their trade inside the jail when they
wouldn’t let go an inmate they had hooked to narcotics even after his
release.
Gang leader Badar Abbas alias Badri continued to pester Sardar Mohammad Taimoor, 23, after his release by using different mobile phones and set his agents on him to keep their prey, a Hafiz-e-Quran, hooked to drugs, police said.
They even tried to kidnap his younger brother from his house in Milad Nagar Mohallah in Banni police area but failed.
While the bid was foiled on Monday last and the two men sent by Badri were later captured by police, the leader was still operating from the prison unabated. Badri allegedly used several cell phones from the prison to organise and instruct his gang members operating outside.
The ill-fated Taimoor landed in the clutches of ‘the drug mafia leader’ when he was booked by Banni police over six month ago and sent to jail for tendering a cheque to one of his clients which was dishonored.
As hard luck would have it, the young graduate, who had chosen the business of selling old cars to earn his livelihood, was kept in a barrack of Adiala Jail where Badri – allegedly involved in the murder of a policeman in the Rawalpindi’s district court premises and several other heinous crimes – ruled.
Badri who belonged to Talagang developed friendship with young Taimoor. He claimed to have the support of political leaders of his hometown and said he would soon be out of prison.
The high-sounding claims and kind attitude of the hardened criminal attracted the youth. Taimoor’s father talking to Dawn shared the details and said, “First he offered his cell phone to my son to talk to me at home. I was angry with him due to his friendships (before being sent to jail) so I didn’t talk to him for about one month.
“After that I was informed by another inmate of the barrack that my son was being subjected to drug injections and drug tablets. On this, I got worried and talked to my son whose voice chocked and tumbled under the drugs’ influence,”
Taimoor’s father then sought help of one of his friends in police and succeeded in getting his son shifted from the Badri’s barrack.
By that time, Badri had stolen Taimoor’s personnel diary containing contact numbers and photographs of his family members.
Later, he started sending threatening messages to Taimoor’s father claiming to kidnap his daughter and murdering him.
“A few days ago, he sent a fresh message to me that he would dispatch a ‘gift’ for me on May 21,” Sardar Zeeshan said.
“As promised, he sent morphed photographs of my daughter to my house through his two ‘agents’ who were later captured while trying to kidnap my younger son and confessed the photographs were sent by Badri,” he said.
Police verified his claim saying that after being captured the alleged kidnappers Mehmood Hassan and Mohammad Mushtaq confessed to the
crime and their links with Badri.
Sardar Zeeshan said though Taimoor was released from the prison on April 16 but the time he spent in prison had destroyed his personality besides shattering his family life as his wife had already got divorce from him due to his detention.
He recalled that a few days after his son was released, two unidentified motorbike riders appeared outside his house and fired gunshots.
Though none of the family members was hurt but, he said, the incident terrified the family immensely.
Police said a case has been registered against the three persons including Badri while his two aides have also been sent to jail after Monday’s incident.
“We will seek custody of the gang leader to investigate him and are presently trying to get the data of his cell phone calls as he has been, reportedly, using more than five different Sims in the jail,” Sub-inspector (SI) Nazim Abbas who was leading the investigation told Dawn.
Gang leader Badar Abbas alias Badri continued to pester Sardar Mohammad Taimoor, 23, after his release by using different mobile phones and set his agents on him to keep their prey, a Hafiz-e-Quran, hooked to drugs, police said.
They even tried to kidnap his younger brother from his house in Milad Nagar Mohallah in Banni police area but failed.
While the bid was foiled on Monday last and the two men sent by Badri were later captured by police, the leader was still operating from the prison unabated. Badri allegedly used several cell phones from the prison to organise and instruct his gang members operating outside.
The ill-fated Taimoor landed in the clutches of ‘the drug mafia leader’ when he was booked by Banni police over six month ago and sent to jail for tendering a cheque to one of his clients which was dishonored.
As hard luck would have it, the young graduate, who had chosen the business of selling old cars to earn his livelihood, was kept in a barrack of Adiala Jail where Badri – allegedly involved in the murder of a policeman in the Rawalpindi’s district court premises and several other heinous crimes – ruled.
Badri who belonged to Talagang developed friendship with young Taimoor. He claimed to have the support of political leaders of his hometown and said he would soon be out of prison.
The high-sounding claims and kind attitude of the hardened criminal attracted the youth. Taimoor’s father talking to Dawn shared the details and said, “First he offered his cell phone to my son to talk to me at home. I was angry with him due to his friendships (before being sent to jail) so I didn’t talk to him for about one month.
“After that I was informed by another inmate of the barrack that my son was being subjected to drug injections and drug tablets. On this, I got worried and talked to my son whose voice chocked and tumbled under the drugs’ influence,”
Taimoor’s father then sought help of one of his friends in police and succeeded in getting his son shifted from the Badri’s barrack.
By that time, Badri had stolen Taimoor’s personnel diary containing contact numbers and photographs of his family members.
Later, he started sending threatening messages to Taimoor’s father claiming to kidnap his daughter and murdering him.
“A few days ago, he sent a fresh message to me that he would dispatch a ‘gift’ for me on May 21,” Sardar Zeeshan said.
“As promised, he sent morphed photographs of my daughter to my house through his two ‘agents’ who were later captured while trying to kidnap my younger son and confessed the photographs were sent by Badri,” he said.
Police verified his claim saying that after being captured the alleged kidnappers Mehmood Hassan and Mohammad Mushtaq confessed to the
crime and their links with Badri.
Sardar Zeeshan said though Taimoor was released from the prison on April 16 but the time he spent in prison had destroyed his personality besides shattering his family life as his wife had already got divorce from him due to his detention.
He recalled that a few days after his son was released, two unidentified motorbike riders appeared outside his house and fired gunshots.
Though none of the family members was hurt but, he said, the incident terrified the family immensely.
Police said a case has been registered against the three persons including Badri while his two aides have also been sent to jail after Monday’s incident.
“We will seek custody of the gang leader to investigate him and are presently trying to get the data of his cell phone calls as he has been, reportedly, using more than five different Sims in the jail,” Sub-inspector (SI) Nazim Abbas who was leading the investigation told Dawn.
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