DIG’s statement saying they will investigate who was behind Shahrukh Jatoi’s fake travel documents was misleading.
KARACHI: A police officer of DIG rank recently told the chief justice that the travel documents on which Shahrukh Jatoi had travelled to Dubai were made by a travel agency and that the police would probe the firm. Obviously, this was done to deflect blame away from the police or the ASF for allowing the murder accused to initially flee the country.
When the police in another country make an arrest on a request from another government, via Interpol or under a bilateral extradition treaty, the arresting authority invariably dispatches the travel documents of the arrested person along with the accused as he or she is sent back to the home country. This means that in Shahrukh Jatoi’s case, the travel documents would already be in the possession of the police and that the DIG’s statement was misleading.
Zafar Mahmood
Published in The Express Tribune, February 25th, 2013.
