Chakwal incident: ATC seeks police report in security men’s killing

Suspects sent on judicial remand for five days.

RAWALPINDI:

An anti-terrorism court has directed the police in Chakwal to complete their investigation and submit a report into the killing of four intelligence officials and their civilian aide, near Jhelum, last year.

Special Judge ATC-II Rana Masood Akhtar also sent two arrested suspects – Waheed Ahmed, resident of Mandi Bhahaudin and Muhammad Ejaz alias Daud, resident of Gujranwala – to the Adiala Jail on judicial remand for five days.

The court had accepted a plea by the police to send the suspects to jail after they were interrogated for 14 days during physical remand. Meanwhile, SHO Choha Syden Shah police station Inspector Mian Nauman Ahmed sought time from the court to complete the investigation.

The ATC also directed jail authorities to produce Ahmed and Ejaz before the court on March 26, the next date of hearing.

On November 12 last year, the police registered a case under charges of murder,
police encounter, and terrorism, when five men, including an army major, were brutally killed while on duty in the Pir Chambal area, on the boundary of Chakwal and Jehlum.

The four officials and their civilian aide were said to have been killed from close range. The police claimed to have found different items such as a wall clock, a bucket and five kilogrammes of high explosive powder from a cave near Pir Chambal shrine.

Ahmed and Ejaz were arrested on February 21, 2012 for their alleged involvement in the killings. The police informed the court that they had recovered weapons as well as belongings of the deceased officials from their possession.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 22^nd, 2012.