In a late night development, the Aabpara police quashed the FIR which was registered against the chairman CDA and other senior officers of the civic body apparently on the instructions of some “influential people”.
Sources said that Islamabad police chief, Wajid Khan Durrani, was summoned at the PM house late in the night and reprimanded for registering a fake FIR against top officials of the government without fulfilling the requirements.
Hussain Lasi, Station House Officer (SHO) Aabpara, said that the complainants misled the police because they took revenge of an FIR registered against them for violating rules and creating hurdles in the official matters of a public department.
When asked as to why the police had registered an FIR in such haste, he said he was on leave and was not aware of the development. An official on condition of anonymity said that it has been a tradition of the Islamabad police to register fake FIRs at the behest of senior officials.
Earlier, top officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) warned that if no action is taken within a week against Islamabad police for registering a baseless FIR against them, all municipal and allied services to the city would be disconnected and suspended.
Thousand of officers and officials of the civic body staged a protest on Monday, later on a press conference was also conducted at the CDA Headquarters over the registration of an FIR against the chairman CDA and other officers of the department. The FIR was based on false charges alleging the officers of stealing ropes tents and water coolers, said the officials of the civic agency.
On the complaint of PPP workers, Aabpara police lodged an FIR under section 506/379, against Chairman CDA Imtiaz Inayat Elahi on charges of “theft and threat”.The other officials mentioned in the FIR include member (Finance), director DMA (directorate of municipal authority), and director Security, deputy director HRD (Human Resource Directorate), CDA spokesperson and 20 other unknown employees of the authority.
When contacted, spokesperson for the civic agency, Ramzan Sajid said that the DIG (Deputy inspector general) and IG ( Inspector general) of Islamabad had visited the chairman afterwards who said it would have been better if they had gotten their version of the story before filing the FIR. Responding to another question, he said that the registration of the FIR would not have been possible without the help of Islamabad police’s top officials. Therefore, it was the responsibility of the government to expose these officials.
Chief Commissioner Islamabad Tariq Mahmood Pirzada told The Express Tribune that it was an unfortunate development but he was optimistic and hoped the issue would be resolved soon, “We have discussed the matter in detail and are further investigating it”.
Referring to the PPP workers as opportunists, the CDA officials said that they are misusing the party’s name and have lodged a bogus FIR in connivance with the Islamabad police. Also, the FIR was registered without the consent of the required authorities and therefore the act had violated legal norms.
The Officers Welfare Association asked the Islamabad Administration, Inspector General of Islamabad Police , Principal Secretary to the PM, Secretary Interior and Cabinet Division to take strict action against the relevant PPP workers . The FIR, that was registered at around 3am on Sunday, stated that the CDA officials had threatened the participants of a protest camp established by the PPP workers in front of the CDA Headquarters and made away with three tents, water pots and rags.
The saga started on June 6, when some party workers had established a camp outside the headquarters which was frequently visited by some of the “dubious” local representatives of the party.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2011.
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