Cognisable?: Police seen dragging feet on writing FIR

Complainant says he was beaten up, forced to flee village.


Express July 10, 2011
Cognisable?: Police seen dragging feet on writing FIR

FEROZWALA:


Ferozewala police have allegedly refused to register an application from a man, beaten up and threatened in the name of honour, calling it a non-cognisable offence


Jahangir Ali, a resident of Goel village in Ferozewala, Sheikhupura district, filed an application at Ferozewala police station on July 8 along with a medico legal report of his injuries.

He said that the station house officer (SHO) Inspector Faisal Abbas Chadhar refused to register the FIR and referred the case to Labanwala police post Sub Inspector Rana Yaqoob who is in charge of the post.

Ali said that SI Yaqoob didn’t help either and made excuses as to why the case could not be registered.

He said that the SI had told him that the police van was out of order and a raid on the accused could only be possible once it was repaired. He said the sub inspector eventually raided the place without telling him. Instead of arresting the accused, he had managed to extract a Rs20,000 bribe from him.

Ali said that the “so called raid” had made his life miserable as it had embroidered the accused who were threatening to kill him if he returned to the village. He said he had left the village on Saturday.

According to the application, Ali had told one Asad that his (Asad) sister was having an affair with a boy in the village, upon which Asad and five other men beat him up for bringing ‘dishonour’ to their family.

The other men were identified as Asad’s brother Sikandar Ali, their uncle Muhammad Heera, cousin Taimur Ahmad and two unidentified armed men. Ali said he was rescued by locals after he had been beaten unconscious.

SHO Chadhar told The Express Tribune that the complaint was filed under Section 337-A (1) and 506-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), which were non-cognisable offenses and therefore an FIR could not be registered without a court order.

DSP concerned, Naveed Irshad, pledged that action would be taken against the accused.  He said that he would personally look into the matter.

However, Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique told The Express Tribune that Section 506-A of the PPC was a cognisable offence and the police were empowered to register an FIR without the court order.

He said that the police were giving undue favours to the accused.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 11th, 2011.

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