Above the Law: Cop suspended for ‘doing his job’
Police official suspended for stopping vehicle of an army officer for checking at Benazir Bhutto International Airport
ISLAMABAD:
A police official was suspended for stopping the vehicle of an army officer for checking at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Sunday. A policeman requesting not to be named said that Constable Mohsin was suspended because he stopped Colonel Imtiaz’s vehicle at the Airport for checking, “which is his job”. On that, the army official got annoyed and filed a complaint with the higher officials who then suspended the police official, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 3rd, 2012.
A police official was suspended for stopping the vehicle of an army officer for checking at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Sunday. A policeman requesting not to be named said that Constable Mohsin was suspended because he stopped Colonel Imtiaz’s vehicle at the Airport for checking, “which is his job”. On that, the army official got annoyed and filed a complaint with the higher officials who then suspended the police official, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 3rd, 2012.