False case: Police inspector suspended

He is accused of falsely implicating a man in a car theft case.

LAHORE: Chaudhry Muhammad Shafiq, the DIG (Investigations) on Saturday suspended an Anti Vehicle Lifting Staff Inspector Ghulam Abbas, allegedly for falsely implicating a man in a car theft case. He was also issued a show cause notice. According to a press release, Inspector Abbas had arrested one Ejaz, a resident of Sialkot, for stealing a car in Chung police station precinct and sent him to judicial lock-up. A relative of the suspect, Shahid Mehmood, had then approached the DIG and alleged that Abbas had arrested Ejaz at the behest of Ejaz’s rivals.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 19^th, 2012.