'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎41r] (94/414)

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that about SO miles from Deh Sheikh Jawad Sahib Ikhtiary,
the Financial Agent, Baft, and others including one gen-
-darme, were held up by Fars 1 robbers. In the engagement
which followed one of the bandits was killed and two cap-
-tured, together with a large number of sheep which they
had recently stolen^
On the 25rd May a gang of about 25 armed robbers
attacked Shabjereh, a village near Zerend, containing about
2,500 inhabitants. They looted as much cash and valuables
as they were a ble to carry away. One of the gang was wound-
-ed by gendarmes , who pursued them, and brought into Kerman.
At the end of May about 45 robbers attacked Soorghan,
21 miles from Daulatabad near Oorzieh and decamped with
valuables. They also kidnapped 3 women and a child as host-
-ages. The gendarmes, in the pursuit which followed, kill-
-ed 6. of the robbers and rescued the hostages.
7. Mohammad Hassan Afshar (Khabri) a notorious robber of
the Baft area was granted an amnesty 3 years ago by the Gov-
-ernment and ordered to come into Kerman. He failed to do so
at the time but in June he tried to enter the town unobtrus
ively to make priva te purchases. The Military authorities
came to know of his presence in the town and arrested and im-
-prisoned him. It was reported that the G.O.C. later accept
ed Rials 100,000/- from the four brothers of Afshar in return
for his release.
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a. Marsha lal Khani, who for some time had been respon
sible for several armed robberies and murders in the outlying
villages of Kerman was caught by the military authorities and
sentenced to dea th. He was hanged on the 5th July and 5 of
his accomplices received various terms of rigorous imprison-
-ment.
9. On the 21st August Dr.Naimi, a relation of Naim-ul-
Mulk, a deputy of the Majlis, was murdered in Bam by four men
in Baluch dress. Two of the.1 alleged assailants were arrested.
0 ne of them was Aqai Rafii, son of the deputy for Bam. The
wife of the deceased, a daughter of Syed Nizam, who is a
wealthy landlord of Bam, originally promised to marry Rafii's
son and the jea lousies aroused culminated in the murder. The
case?was still under hearing at the end of the year.
10. Ghulam Abbas Zadeh and his son Panj Ali who were
responsible for numerous armed robberies in the outlying
districts of Kerman were captured in September by Capt.
Mirhussaini, a military officer, about 60 miles from Kerman,
Eight rifles in their possession were confiscated and they
were put up for trial in a military court.
11. On the 5th October in his residence near Darwaze
Na siriyeh. Fa riboze Nasimi, a Zorastrian of Yezd, was
rudely awakened by two masked robbers armed with swords who
demanded his money. They had come to know that he had real
ised Rials 40,000/- a few days before from the sale of his
fa rm products. 0 n being given Rials 3,000/- they severely
ma Itreated him and decamped with the household silver and
the victim f s clothes.
12. In November, some local butchers on their way to
Zerend to buy sheep were attacked by robbers and relieved
of tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 10,000/-.
13. A carava n on the Bardsir-Nigar road was held up by