Hindu killing case: Victim’s brother files FIR, adds 4 names to list of suspects

The police had left four suspects as unidentified in its list of 11

SUKKUR: The brother of one of the Hindu doctors who was killed over Eid has come forward to register a case for the triple murder in a first such move from the victims' side. It is significant because he has added four new names to the list, as these are the men who are believed to have actually fired the shots.

This is the second FIR to be registered in this case - the first one was filed by the police themselves. In a move to ostensibly correct the record, victim Naresh's brother Suresh Kumar came forward late on Sunday night to lodge FIR No. 80/2011 against eleven Bhayo clansmen.

The new FIR adds the four new names of Qazi Ghulam Mohammad, Mohammad Iqbal, Mohammad Hussain, Mohammad Ramzan but it also has the same names as the shorter police FIR: Moulvi Ehsanullah Bhayo, Mohammad Aslam Bhayo, Moulvi Naeem Bhayo, Ubaidullah Bhayo, Abdul Latif Bhayo, Abdul Ghani Bhayo and Abdul Rauf Bhayo.

The police had booked 11 men, seven by name and four as unidentified, for the ambush on Eid day in which three Hindus were gunned down in Sitampur Mohalla of Chak village in Shikarpur over a romance between a Hindu boy and Muslim girl.

The Hindu community was not happy with the original police FIR as they said that the state had acted in haste to give cover to the real culprits - the four men who Suresh has now named.

Some of the Hindu elders, who wished to remain anonymous given the death threats they have been receiving, told The Express Tribune that since day one they had told the police that Moulvi Ehsanullah Bhayo and the other six men who were arrested were innocent. But the police had refused to listen.

According to them, four other men, Qazi Ghulam Mohammad Bhayo, Mohammad Iqbal Bhayo, Mohammad Hussain Bhayo and Mohammad Ramzan Bhayo are involved.

Hindu elders including the president of the Hindu Panchayat in the village, Mukhi Prem Chand are being threatened. Premchand told The Express Tribune that he had been given a death threat and told to withdraw the case.

Meanwhile, there is no sign of Seema Bhayo, the girl at the centre of the triple murder, or Sandeep, the young man she was involved with.

Lakhi Ghulam Shah's DSP Zahid Mirani told The Express Tribune that they are still hunting for the rest of the men named in the FIR. But they had no idea where Seema Bhayo was.

On Monday those seven men from the police FIR, were produced before the judge of Jacobabad's anti-terrorism court. They are: Moulvi Ehsanullah Bhayo, Mohammad Aslam Bhayo, Moulvi Naeem Bhayo, Ubaidullah Bhayo, Abdul Latif Bhayo, Abdul Ghani Bhayo and Abdul Rauf Bhayo. Even though the police asked for more time to question them under remand, Judge Abdul Rasheed Soomro rejected the request and ordered for the men to be produced on November 17 after their first remand period of one week expires.

The Difference

The police FIR names 7 men in its list of 11:

1. Moulvi Ehsanullah Bhayo

2. Mohammad Aslam Bhayo

3. Moulvi Naeem Bhayo

4. Ubaidullah Bhayo

5. Abdul Latif Bhayo

6. Abdul Ghani Bhayo

7. Abdul Rauf Bhayo

8. Unidentified

9. Unidentified

10. Unidentified

11. Unidentified

Suresh Kumar names all 11 men:

1. Moulvi Ehsanullah Bhayo

2. Mohammad Aslam Bhayo

3. Moulvi Naeem Bhayo

4. Ubaidullah Bhayo

5. Abdul Latif Bhayo

6. Abdul Ghani Bhayo

7. Abdul Rauf Bhayo

8. Qazi Ghulam Mohd Bhayo

9. Mohammad Iqbal Bhayo

10. Mohammad Hussain Bhayo

11. Mohammad Ramzan Bhayo

Published in The Express Tribune, November 15^th,  2011.