Sindhi Muslim shootout: Wife of suspected fraud moves plea against CTD officials

Files separate plea in SHC to grant meeting with husband


Our Correspondent July 13, 2016
Files separate plea in SHC to grant meeting with husband. PHOTO: EXPRESS

KARACHI: Wife of a suspected fraudster in the Sindhi Muslim shootout case approached a sessions court on Wednesday against two policemen and as many others for 'falsely' implicating her husband over a monetary dispute.

Saira, through her counsel, moved an application before District East's top judge, submitting that the police framed her husband, Dilnawaz, in the firing incident 'only to save their skins'.

She stated that her husband ran a rent-a-car business in Model Colony and two men named Ilyas Irani and his son Saeed owed him money. The Iranis, she maintained, were front men of a cop deputed at the Counter Terrorism Department, DSP Arif Usman. She accused another police officer, Inspector Aurangzeb who is posted at the Anti-Car Lifting Cell, of threatening her husband.

On the night of incident at around 10:30pm, her husband received a call from Ilyas summoning him at a location to collect the outstanding amount. Sometime after her husband went to collect the money, a man named Raza Irani called Saira and told her Dilnawaz was shot injured and in custody of Ferozabad police.

Saira claimed to have written an application to the Ferozabad SHO informing him her version of the story but, she claimed, neither did he reply nor take any action against these men. She pleaded the court direct the SHO to record her statement and lodge an FIR against the cops and the Iranis and grant her protection.

Saira also filed a similar petition with the Sindh High Court pleading for a meeting with her husband and sought medical assistance for him.

Police stance

Initial investigations suggest Abrar was killed while Dilnawaz was injured when CTD personnel opened fire at a vehicle apparently finding some suspicious activity going on in it. The four CTD personnel and Dilnawaz are in police custody for Abrar's murder.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 14th, 2016.

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