Staged encounter: Case against SHO, nine other cops
According to the police at the time, Allah Rakha’s son Sarfaraz and another man had stolen a bike .
LAHORE:
A case has been registered on the orders of the Lahore High Court against a station house officer and nine other policemen for staging an encounter in which a young man was killed.
Allah Rakha, the father of the deceased and a resident of Sharqpur, told the court that on July 13, 2010, Nishtar Colony police had killed his son and then tried to cover up the killing as an encounter. He sought a case against the then Nishtar Colony SHO Munawwar Dogar and his colleagues.
According to the police at the time, Allah Rakha’s son Sarfaraz and another man had stolen a bike and were stopped at a picket at Ehsan Chowk.
They said that the suspects then opened fire at the police and Sarfaraz was killed in retaliatory fire.
A petition against the police over the shootout was submitted in the Sessions Court, but dismissed after a judicial inquiry found the claim of a staged encounter to be untrue, said Dogar, who is now Data Darbar SHO. He said the encounter was real and he would prove it in court.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2012.
A case has been registered on the orders of the Lahore High Court against a station house officer and nine other policemen for staging an encounter in which a young man was killed.
Allah Rakha, the father of the deceased and a resident of Sharqpur, told the court that on July 13, 2010, Nishtar Colony police had killed his son and then tried to cover up the killing as an encounter. He sought a case against the then Nishtar Colony SHO Munawwar Dogar and his colleagues.
According to the police at the time, Allah Rakha’s son Sarfaraz and another man had stolen a bike and were stopped at a picket at Ehsan Chowk.
They said that the suspects then opened fire at the police and Sarfaraz was killed in retaliatory fire.
A petition against the police over the shootout was submitted in the Sessions Court, but dismissed after a judicial inquiry found the claim of a staged encounter to be untrue, said Dogar, who is now Data Darbar SHO. He said the encounter was real and he would prove it in court.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2012.