SHO, team in civvies accused of murder

A 20-year-old man was killed and another injured in a traffic accident on the M-9 Motorway in the limits of Lunikot police station in Jamshoro district on Sunday after plainclothes personnel allegedly tried to stop their car, leading the occupants to mistake them for robbers.

Per regulations, police are strictly barred from performing duties, particularly on roads and public spaces, in civvies.

A young man was killed in a highway accident, as his car hit a truck while trying to escape unknown private cars allegedly chasing them on M9 Motorway. The police identified the deceased as 20 years old Hameedullah Brohi, a resident of Quetta district of Balochistan.

His friend Muhammad Asif Brohi, accompanying him in the case, was injured in the accident. Talking to the media at district headquarters hospital in Kotri the injured person blamed SHO Nooriabad police station Suleman Lashari for the tragic accident. According to him, they put their vehicle at full throttle suspecting that they are pursued by some bandits who wanted to rob or kidnap them.

In the bid their vehicle rammed into a truck on the motorway, leaving Hameedullah fatally wounded. He accused the SHO of hitting their car from behind so that they rammed into the truck in the front. Moreover, once they were left injured, Asif alleged that the SHO beat him and his deceased friend with pistol butt.

Asif said they both had left Karachi to attend a wedding in Tando Adam, Sanghar district when a car with armed men started chasing them. If it was a police mobile with policemen in uniforms, they would have stopped for sure. Relatives of the deceased and the injured resorted to protest outside the hospital, demanding arrest of the SHO and registration of an FIR against him.

Lashari, meanwhile, rejected the charges of the chase. He, however, told the media that the Brohis' car crossed them at a very fast speed on the motorway after which they signaled the car to stop.