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Further, a video conference system will be set up in all the 36 districts of the province which links with the police headquarters in Lahore.
In a bid to modernize the administrative working of the provincial police force, the equipment available to police and monitoring infrastructure at police stations will be improved.
In this regard, the government is looking to source critical equipment, including 6,000 body armour kits, 136 biometric machines, video walls, bolt cutters, crystal glass doors, 1,470cameras of different types and night vision equipment.
In this regard, the Punjab Inspector General (IG) office has secured funds from the Punjab government and contracts are expected to be awarded by the end of this month.
Moreover, closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras will also be installed at all entry and exit points of police stations and rooms assigned to investigation officers.
Wife held for killing husband
Rawalpindi police have arrested a woman who they accuse of murdering her husband with the help of her paramour.
Civil Lines Police Station SHO Mian Imran Abbas said that a few days ago, they had been called to Babar Masih’s house that he had accidentally shot himself dead while cleaning his gun.
He said that they were suspicious of the circumstances surrounding Masih’s death from the very start because of certain oddities they found at the crime scene.
Abbas explained that one of the odd things at the crime scene was that the victim’s body was lying inside the room while the gun he had allegedly shot himself with was lying in the courtyard.
He added that when they inquired about the incident from his wife, Sobia, she told them that she heard a loud bang coming from the room. When she rushed inside, she saw her husband lying dead on the floor.
Moreover, Abbas said that when they arrived at the crime scene, they noticed that one of the shoelaces of the suspect, Riaz Hussain, were untied. Further, he said that Hussain was nursing a bruise under his left eye as if he someone had struck him there.
The SHO said that their suspicion strengthened when they saw the victim’s wife raising a hue and cry about the death of her husband but not a single tear was streaming down her face, which struck him as unnatural.
However, Abbas said that they refrained from arresting anyone from the site and instead decided to proceed with their investigations quietly. A review of the cellular phone data of the suspects revealed enhanced contact between the victim’s wife and his brother.
When police officers confronted Sobia about this, she confessed that she had murdered her husband with assistance from her paramour.
The police will acquire physical remand of the suspects today.
Kidnapped woman recovered
The Saddar police have recovered a woman from Dera Ghazi Khan who has been missing for the past two years.
The police said that the victim had allegedly been kidnapped by two brothers, Kanwal Gul and Muhammad Ishaq, on January 2, 2017, from Rawalpindi.
They took the girl to Dera Ghazi Khan where they allegedly subjected her to sexual assault. However, the suspects were arrested by the DG Khan police in another case and recovered the girl who was found to be six months pregnant after allegedly being impregnated by Gul apart from a nine-month-old child she had given birth to.
A court in DG Khan had directed the district police officer to shift the suspects to Rawalpindi.
Rawalpindi police were then handed custody of the victim. The police presented her before the district and session judge who in turn directed a civil judge to record the victim’s statement. The statement of the suspects is expected to be recorded next week in the presence of the victim.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 14th, 2019.
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