Police encounter: Accused police seek Supreme Court help
Lahore High Court chief justice took suo motu notice and IG Police nominated Mubasharullah as the inquiry officer.
LAHORE:
Police officers accused of staging a fake encounter have claimed they were being made scapegoats to save senior officials who had actually ordered the killing. They have also sent an application to the Chief Justice of Pakistan seeking suo motu action in their case.
Sub Inspector Riaz Ahmed and Constables Abdul Qadir and Asif of Nishtar Town have alleged in their application that they were being wrongfully implicated in a staged police encounter by inquiry officer Major (retd) Mubasharullah owing to his enmity with co-accused DSP Riasat Ali Javed.
The application says that after news of the fake encounter hit the media, the Lahore High Court chief justice took suo motu notice and the Inspector General of Police nominated Mubasharullah as the inquiry officer.
The application said that the inquiry officer arrested the DSP, the SI and two constables and forced them to sign statements which were not written by them. They were assured, they said, that they were being accused temporarily and that the police would help in their release.
They alleged that the senior officers knew the identity of the actual culprits. The accused requested their chief justice to order a re-investigation of the case and a judicial inquiry to find out the truth.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 23rd, 2011.
Police officers accused of staging a fake encounter have claimed they were being made scapegoats to save senior officials who had actually ordered the killing. They have also sent an application to the Chief Justice of Pakistan seeking suo motu action in their case.
Sub Inspector Riaz Ahmed and Constables Abdul Qadir and Asif of Nishtar Town have alleged in their application that they were being wrongfully implicated in a staged police encounter by inquiry officer Major (retd) Mubasharullah owing to his enmity with co-accused DSP Riasat Ali Javed.
The application says that after news of the fake encounter hit the media, the Lahore High Court chief justice took suo motu notice and the Inspector General of Police nominated Mubasharullah as the inquiry officer.
The application said that the inquiry officer arrested the DSP, the SI and two constables and forced them to sign statements which were not written by them. They were assured, they said, that they were being accused temporarily and that the police would help in their release.
They alleged that the senior officers knew the identity of the actual culprits. The accused requested their chief justice to order a re-investigation of the case and a judicial inquiry to find out the truth.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 23rd, 2011.