Police say 25 sacrificial goats worth Rs1.9m stolen from Karachi's Gulistan-i-Jauhar

KARACHI: Twenty-five sacrificial goats worth Rs1.9 million were stolen from Gulistan-i-Jauhar, police said on Monday. Malir Cantt Station House Officer (SHO) Agha Abdul Rasheed told Dawn that a man had bought 25 goats and housed them at an empty plot in Block 8. The police official said that the man had also hired a watchman to watch the animals. However, on Saturday night, around three to four suspects arrived at the location in a Suzuki van and took away all the goats, the SHO said. According to SHO Rasheed, the watchman told police that he was awake at the time of the incident, but the suspects tied a cloth over his face and forcibly took away the goats. The official said that police had obtained CCTV footage from the area and asked the owner to lodge a first information report (FIR) to initiate legal proceedings. However, so far, the owner appeared reluctant to pursue the case, the official said. In 2024, a truck containing a consignment of sacrificial goats was hijacked by four armed men in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. Police said that the truck carrying the goats was on its way from Hyderabad to Gulistan-i-Jauhar when the driver stopped the vehicle near Kamran Chowrangi to inquire about the address of his destination. In the meantime, four suspects riding two motorbikes emerged, held the driver at gunpoint, snatched his cash and cell phone and then took away the truck with the goats on board. The victim Abdul Manan told the media that the estimated value of the looted sacrificial animals was around Rs1.5 million.