Sialkot lynching: ATC rejects bail plea
The Anti-Terrorism Court has rejected today (Thursday) the bail plea filed by nine policemen accused of the mob killing of two teenage brothers in Sialkot
Earlier, the accused policemen along with 18 others appeared in an anti terrorist court in Gujranwala. Among the accused is the Sialkot DPO Waqar Chauhan. He is one of nine police officials who allegedly failed to stop the killings.
Meanwhile, documents of witness accounts of the Sialkot lynchings were distributed among the defendants.
The case has now been adjourned until October 22, when the group is likely to be formally charged.
In an earlier report in The Express Tribune, IG Mushtaq Sukhera, who is heading the joint investigation team probing the incident, said that six out of ten police officials involved had voluntarily surrendered.
The case revolves around the public lynching of two brothers Hafiz Mughees and Muneeb Butt in the presence of police
The family of the victims had recently gone on hunger strike in protest against the police and said that the police were changing the “direction of the investigation”.