Three arrested in Careem captain murder case
RAWALPINDI: Police have arrested 3 suspects from Rawalpindi for a murder of a ‘captain’ employed with a ride-hailing association Careem.
Sajawal Ameer was shot passed late Monday night and succumbed to his injuries in a sanatorium a subsequent morning.
According to SSP operations Rawalpindi, a 3 suspects requisitioned a float from a matrimony gymnasium during Sambrial Road. They afterwards attempted to waylay a automobile nearby a Lakho area, and on resistance, shot Ameer 5 time.
The harmed captain was rushed to a sanatorium though succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning.
The SSP pronounced a suspects were arrested after a association supposing them with their newcomer data, used to pointer adult and book rides on a service.
Talking to Geo News, Careem CEO Junaid Iqbal blamed a deteriorating law and sequence situation, observant a law coercion agencies need to take notice of augmenting aroused incidents in a capital.
“What can a motorist do in front of a gun…we have no answer to that. We are helpless,” he said.
When asked if a organization has measures in place to safeguard captains’ safety, Iqbal pronounced that Careem has a “lot of” reserve features. For instance, for a prolonged time a use was not open to no-go areas in Karachi until a LEAs did not transparent those regions, he added.
He combined that going brazen a association competence have to cruise tying a use to name areas in a collateral too.
Iqbal also pronounced a association also has a required newcomer information that can be supposing to a military in such incidents.
In both cases, including that of Junaid Mustafa, who was also shot passed in a collateral in a identical case, Careem supposing all a evidence, applicable dungeon phone numbers and emails and prior engagement record, Iqbal added.