Court orders police to lodge FIR against customs official
The official allegedly threatened an oil tanker driver and took bribe.
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KARACHI:
A district and sessions court directed the Gadap police to register an FIR against a customs official, accused of threatening a driver and taking bribe.
The transporter, Ibrar Khan, went to court against the customs official, Ali Jan Jamali, and accused him and some other men of stopping his oil tanker near Kathore Morr on Super Highway on April 29 this year when his driver was coming back from Kanar oil field.
The petitioner said that Jamali roughed up the driver and accused him of carrying stolen oil.
The driver showed the necessary official documents but Jamali refused to listen to him, he said, adding that he took the driver and the truck to an abandoned place and forced him to call the owner to rescue him for money.
“Jamali demanded Rs3 million for the release of the truck and the driver,” claimed Khan. “The matter was, however, settled at Rs205,000.”
Khan added that Jamali and the other officials threatened them against taking any legal action.
In his petition, he urged the court to direct the police to lodge a case against the men since the police were not complying.
On the other hand, Gadap police SHO insisted that he received the petitioner’s application through his officers and appointed a sub-inspector, Noor Ahmed, to take further legal action as per law.
He said that both the parties were called at the police station where Khan accused Jamali, a constable in the customs department at Port Qasim, of taking bribe while the latter denied the charges saying that he was on medical leave and all
allegations against him were false. Jamali also produced a medical certificate in his defence, the SHO added.
The officer told the court that the matter pertained to the Anti-Corruption Department, however, if any order was going to be passed it should be complied with, in letter and spirit.
On Tuesday, the application under Section 22-A of the criminal procedure code was heard by the district and sessions judge, Malir, Muhammad Yamin, who told the SHO to register the FIR against Jamali according to the relevant law.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2013.
A district and sessions court directed the Gadap police to register an FIR against a customs official, accused of threatening a driver and taking bribe.
The transporter, Ibrar Khan, went to court against the customs official, Ali Jan Jamali, and accused him and some other men of stopping his oil tanker near Kathore Morr on Super Highway on April 29 this year when his driver was coming back from Kanar oil field.
The petitioner said that Jamali roughed up the driver and accused him of carrying stolen oil.
The driver showed the necessary official documents but Jamali refused to listen to him, he said, adding that he took the driver and the truck to an abandoned place and forced him to call the owner to rescue him for money.
“Jamali demanded Rs3 million for the release of the truck and the driver,” claimed Khan. “The matter was, however, settled at Rs205,000.”
Khan added that Jamali and the other officials threatened them against taking any legal action.
In his petition, he urged the court to direct the police to lodge a case against the men since the police were not complying.
On the other hand, Gadap police SHO insisted that he received the petitioner’s application through his officers and appointed a sub-inspector, Noor Ahmed, to take further legal action as per law.
He said that both the parties were called at the police station where Khan accused Jamali, a constable in the customs department at Port Qasim, of taking bribe while the latter denied the charges saying that he was on medical leave and all
allegations against him were false. Jamali also produced a medical certificate in his defence, the SHO added.
The officer told the court that the matter pertained to the Anti-Corruption Department, however, if any order was going to be passed it should be complied with, in letter and spirit.
On Tuesday, the application under Section 22-A of the criminal procedure code was heard by the district and sessions judge, Malir, Muhammad Yamin, who told the SHO to register the FIR against Jamali according to the relevant law.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2013.