Four police constables, Imran Ali, Yasin Jamali, Rashid and Maqbool, have been remanded into police custody till May 15 for allegedly shooting at an 18-year-old boy. PHOTO: MOHAMMAD SAQIB/EXPRESS
KARACHI: Sakrand Training Centre SSP Ghulam Sarwar Abro's son himself shot Suleman Lashari, an O’ level student who was killed in Karachi earlier this May, claimed one of the arrested police officers allegedly involved in the murder, Express News reported on Saturday.
On May 9, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) had sent four police officials on physical-custody remand for their alleged involvement in the murder. It was also reported that the SSP was becoming an obstacle in the investigation process.
The murder
An 18-year-old student of O’ Levels was shot dead at 2am on May 8 while he was studying in his balcony. The young man was allegedly targeted by the SSP's son, Salman Abro, who came to Suleman's house along with five police constables to settle an argument.
The guards deployed at Suleman’s house had retaliated and the victim’s brother Zeeshan had also joined in after getting his weapon from his room.
Salman was also injured in the exchange of fire and one of his police guards, constable Zaheer Ahmed, was killed. Salman is critically injured and is currently admitted at Ziauddin Hospital. The incident had also left Suleman’s guard, Ali Bugti, injured.
An FIR No. 235/2014 has been registered by the deceased’s brother at the Darakhshan police station against Salman and the four police constables – Muhammad Rasheed, Yasin, Maqbool and Imran – who accompanied him. The name of the deceased police constable has not been added in the FIR, which includes Sections 302, 324 and Anti-Terrorim Act Section seven. The four surviving policemen are in police custody while Salman will be arrested when he recovers from his injuries. The police have also seized the Vigo and the weapons.
Taking action against SSP
On May 9, the police department had decided to initiate legal action against Salman's father after his son was booked for murder.
Based on the initial reports, the police officials had asked their superiors to take action against the SSP for misusing state resources.
An inquiry team had been constituted to investigate SSP Abro and was ordered to submit its report within three days.
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While people here are right with their demand for justice , let me add a very important point to this thread, with the enquiry in its most crucial phase the authorities fail to question the absence of a very important eye witness the person has been responsible for asking Salman Abro to come along with guards while provoking Suleman Lashari at the same time to be mentally prepared for things to go wrong .. With that being said and Lashari provoked enough as soon as Abro's Vigo stopped infront of the car, it was Lashari himself who initiated the scene with an aerial shot from his brother's 9mm pistol that he usually used to carry too, since both the eye witness and lashari along with guards were sitting outside the premises waiting for Abro. Right after the first shot Abro's guard retaliated and started shooting as a result he got shot and rushed inside the gate, NO HE WAS NOT STUDYING IN HIS BALCONY THATS A BLATANT LIE, with him rushed the eye witness inside too. Lashari crashed on the car porche while his guards kept shooting at the vigo from the main gate while the brother aimed from the rooftop with his 12 bore. Lashari insisted the eye witness to take him to hospital but the eye witness refused saying his driver left with the car, lashari then took out his own car keys from the pocket and asked his friend again but he refused saying he cant afford to be a part of a police case by bringing him to hospital, Lasharis mother witnessed this scene too and kept crying seeing her soon bleeding profusely .. Some more minutes passed and they witnessed Lashari's last seeing him blow his signature flying kiss to his mother.. The eye witness happens to be the only son of a political and an influential sindhi family and has close family relationships with Lashari's too. Keeping in mind their terms with the political family and knowing the eye witnesses statements will change the course of the case they didn't even mention his name in the F.I.R. The authorities should check for the call records of Abro and Lashari and take the eye witness in for a physical remand so as to know what really happened. The eye witnesse's name is Shahnawaz Shah son of Waheeda Shah.
The judiciary has been giving bold decisions but the problem is with the implementation. Not a single death sentence convict had been executed. during the past eight years or so. Aroun 8,000 are awaiting executions. So every one is sure to get away unpunished after a few years or may escape even earlier in a jail break. In this particular case the father should also get appropriate punishment along with the son, who according to the latest reports has been identified as murdourer.p
SSP Abro, keep so many loaded guns guard at his residence, his son is also Acting SSP in DHA roaming with police guard and girls not secured in area, The Karachi Police are full Criminals, corrupted, Wadera, PIR or Zamindar, plus some corrupted police brothers from PANJAB to loot, building their home out side Karachi, do we need ABRO type SSP who keep collecting bribe from big people and built house in DHA, this area is very very costly and posh, all criminal, bribe and Batha collector living there, If Ishaq Dar, Finance Minister order to all banks to check police officer, Govt employees, their accounts in Banks, properties and other assets how they built the white and black will come out ABRO, will on black side.
Fawad ,
SSP and his son is MQM member ?????
Do not blame every thing to MQM . Open your eyes .
@syeda iqqu: and what do you "think" about policemen being used as personal guards for their families by corrupt police officers ???
Who studies on their balconies at 2am at night ? But the use of police, by the son of police official, for settling personal scores is criminal in itself. The SSP should be fired immediately for allowing this to happen.
if abro was asking his guards to give him a gun! it was their duty to inform his father !!! they shouldn't have given him the gun.. secondly i personally think his guards have put him in this trouble. if they wouldn't have given him the gun it wouldn't had happen.
It was the duty of security guards to tell their boss that they were being compelled by his son to accompany him at odd hours to settle a score with his opponent .
@Fawad...for everything MQM is blame...explain the involment MQM in this killing..
@Kazmis: The guards and vehicle belong to Sakrand and the incident takes place in Karachi. Are the guards and vehicle provided to SP or his wife and children. Can the guards shoot at the orders of a young teenage boy. We need to stop this to avoid anarchy. Police is paid to protect people than kill people.
Our society has become sick and so are our younger population with increasing level of fustration causing such incidents. This is the condition of the privileged and as for the under privalged and uneducated youths no price for guessing.
The society needs to be cleansed completely of all this nuisance and we need a revolution soon.
de weaponise pakistan...
OR
Have a limit of only two police officers in VVIP duty...
So the VVIP's can focus on this issue
Sons of waderas and police officers from interior Sind roam around the roads of DHA vulgarly showing the corruption wealth looted by their parents and armed vandals in and without uniforms. Corruption party's corrupt rule and its enmity towards people of Karachi has tuned the city into a lawless goth of interior Sind where people live at the mercy of the powerful and corrupt
@Kazmis: What is the fault of SP Abro..... His fault is that, he had no idea that his son has taken a contingent of Sindh cops with him to commit a murder. His fault is that his son, i mean his young son, can lord over five Sindh policemen. His fault is that five policemen, under his subordination, went into a private residence and murdered an innocent kid. SP Abro is to be blamed for gross of negligence of duty, keeping public resources at his home i.e police squad, letting his son use the public resource to settle score.
What is the fault of SP Abro? He was himself trapped by his own son. Psychatrics must start a research what is causing so much frustration in youngs that they spoil full career alongwith others including their parents.
Law of the jungle prevails in karachi and the parties in power there i.e. MQM and PPP are directly responsible for it.
Sindh police are thugs and murderers and majority of them have criminal records ,they should declare their assets..
Karachi police chief and IGP sindh should be suspended for lack enforcement in police force...son of SSP going at 2am for killing and settling the score
When law and order fails and justice is nonexistant..........incidents like this will happen, it is but natural.