Application rejected: Murder suspect’s bail plea turned down

Construction supervisor booked for ‘torturing, killing’ 12-year-old

ISLAMABAD: A sessions court has rejected bail application of a construction supervisor booked for allegedly torturing and killing a 12-year-old boy.

Muhammad Waris, who worked as a cook for a team of labourers at a construction site in G-15, lodged a complaint with Tarnol police that Muhammad Aamir, who supervised the labourers at the site, had tortured his son Abdur Rehman.

Waris said that Rehman worked with him as a helper.

On May 20, Waris went to his hometown in Sargodha and left Rehman back at the work.

On the evening of May 22, Aamir phoned him to tell that a wheelbarrow laden with bricks had fallen on Rehman and one of his arms had been broken.

Waris came to Islamabad the next day and found his son unconscious.

He took his son back to his village for treatment on Aamir’s advice.

However, Waris told the police that when he insisted his son told him that Aamir had tortured and threatened him.

The boy died two days later.

“Aamir tortured my son, who died on May 26 of injuries,” Waris maintained in the FIR.

He also suspected that Aamir might have also sexually assaulted his son.

Police booked Aamir for murder, but before they could arrest him, he filed a bail-before-arrest application to Additional District and Sessions Judge (west) Mohammad Atta Rabbani on June 2nd.

In the bail application, Aamir denied the charges against him saying the case against him was an attempt to grab money from him.

He also claimed that there was no eye-witness to what Waris claimed.

Advocate Tariq Amin, counsel for the complainant, questioned why the suspect, who supervised the labourers, did not arrange first aid for the victim, if he had been injured in an accident.

Prosecution witnesses also supported the version of the complainant.

“No malice or ulterior motive or enmity on the part of the complainant or police has been proved for false implication of the petitioner [the suspect] in this case,” the court ruled and rejected the bail application.

Tarnol police Sub-Inspector Muhammad Khan, who is investigation officer for the case, told The Express Tribune that the suspect had not been arrested yet.

He said results of medical tests were still awaited.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 1^st, 2016.