Incident occurred because workers at call centre took complainant’s daughter, another employee, and hostage
Karachi: Police arrested eight people on Tuesday night after a gun battle erupted between two groups of people at a call centre in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal neighbourhood.
The first information report (FIR) of the incident was filed at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Police Station a day ago against the eight suspects under Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 337A (punishment for assault), 337H(ii) (punishment for hurt by rash or negligent act), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 25 (use of a firearm to commit a criminal offence) of the 2013 Sindh Arms Act.
The incident occurred because workers at the call centre took the complainant’s daughter, another employee, hostage, according to the FIR.
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