Police no closer to finding runaway
‘Investigation head’ says he didn’t know he was on inquiry committee.
LAHORE:
The police are no closer to catching Ameen alias Meena, who escaped from the sessions court a couple of months ago, The Express Tribune has learnt. The police official named to head the investigating committee for the case said he had never heard of it.
Police sources said that Ameen, who was a notorious criminal behind at least seven murders, had escaped with the help of his family. After being produced for a hearing in additional district and session judge Muhammad Akram’s court, Ameen was put in the detention cell at the sessions court awaiting another hearing.
Before that hearing, Ameen managed to convince his police guards to take him to the first floor to meet his parents and other family members, a source in the police told The Express Tribune.
Upstairs, the police guards were offered bottled soft drinks as a thank you by family members, the source said. But the drinks turned out to be drugged and the guards fell unconscious to the ground, giving Ameen the chance to flee.
Following his escape, bailiff Khalid, orderly Ashiq and constables Yaseen and Ashfaq were suspended for negligence. The source said that Ameen had been produced in court in shackles.Asked about the status of the search for Ameen, Inspector Mian Zulfiqar, the official in charge of investigations at Islampura police station, said that a committee led by Sub Inspector Abdul Latif and including Assistant Sub-Inspector Riasat Ali and others had been set up and they would catch Ameen.
But when The Express Tribune contacted SI Latif, he denied all knowledge of the investigation. “I do not know how or when I was put on this committee,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2011.
The police are no closer to catching Ameen alias Meena, who escaped from the sessions court a couple of months ago, The Express Tribune has learnt. The police official named to head the investigating committee for the case said he had never heard of it.
Police sources said that Ameen, who was a notorious criminal behind at least seven murders, had escaped with the help of his family. After being produced for a hearing in additional district and session judge Muhammad Akram’s court, Ameen was put in the detention cell at the sessions court awaiting another hearing.
Before that hearing, Ameen managed to convince his police guards to take him to the first floor to meet his parents and other family members, a source in the police told The Express Tribune.
Upstairs, the police guards were offered bottled soft drinks as a thank you by family members, the source said. But the drinks turned out to be drugged and the guards fell unconscious to the ground, giving Ameen the chance to flee.
Following his escape, bailiff Khalid, orderly Ashiq and constables Yaseen and Ashfaq were suspended for negligence. The source said that Ameen had been produced in court in shackles.Asked about the status of the search for Ameen, Inspector Mian Zulfiqar, the official in charge of investigations at Islampura police station, said that a committee led by Sub Inspector Abdul Latif and including Assistant Sub-Inspector Riasat Ali and others had been set up and they would catch Ameen.
But when The Express Tribune contacted SI Latif, he denied all knowledge of the investigation. “I do not know how or when I was put on this committee,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2011.