A file photo of Karachi police. PHOTO: AFP
These details came in a report filed by the home secretary to the Supreme Court, a copy of which is available with The Express Tribune. According to the report, the home secretary named one deputy inspector-general (DIG), one police superintendent and 20 deputy superintendents of police (DSP).
It stated that the 10 DSPs were given minor punishments such as withholding of increment or promotion for one year, reduction to lower rank for one or two years or time scale after giving them the opportunity of a hearing, during which allegations against them were proven.
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In the Karachi Traffic DIG column, the report stated that the request for disciplinary proceedings against four DSPs had been withdrawn by the inspector-general of police in light of an inquiry conducted by Additional IG Dr Aftab Ahmed Pathan.
It said that the IG disposed of disciplinary proceedings against then Rapid Response Force DSP Faisal Noor, Central Police Office Karachi Legal DSP Agha Ahmed Bashir, DSP Chaudhry Liaquat Ali and DSP Fahim Ahmed Brohi (then inspector), who were reinstated.
It also mentioned that the case of DSP Farah Ambreen, then Madadgar-15 DSP and now posted as command and control centre DSP, was disposed of as she had already completed the punishment given to her by the IG.
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The report held that the matter of disciplinary proceedings against the Foreigners Security Cell Karachi SP Tariq Mughal pertained to the provincial services and general administration department and the establishment division.
It said that DSP Nisar Ahmed Brohi, then principal of the Shaheed Abdul Aziz Bullo Recruitment Training Centre, Hyderabad, was given a minor punishment of compulsory retirement from service.
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