The police have found no leads as to who were responsible. STOCK IMAGE
Niazi, the then deputy superintendent of Karachi Central Jail was shot dead along with five others, including his brother, driver and guard, in an ambush on his convoy in Saddar in July 2006.
The investigation officer had to submit a report over the non-bailable warrants of as many as a dozen absconders recently implicated in the case following the 'confessions' of the recently arrested suspect, Ubaid alias K2, who was taken into custody in the March 11 raid at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) headquarters.
The report, however, registered zero progress as the officer contended that the whereabouts of the suspects could not be traced. In the previous hearing, the ATC-IX had issued warrants for Saeed alias Bharam and 11 other suspects. Saeed allegedly ran a target-killing cartel and was reportedly confined with Saulat Ali Khan alias Saulat Mirza in jail for some time.
An investigation report submitted to the court contained revelations of the recently arrested suspect who had claimed there were political motives behind the killing. Niazi did not facilitate the MQM-affiliated prisoners according to their will, the report quoted Ubaid as saying, nor did he let them meet visitors beyond the allowed time. The jailer's killing plot was supervised by Saeed and the assailants held three meeting before finally executing the plan, the report added.
Currently, four suspects including the reported whistle blower, Ubaid, Chaudhry Sajjad, Tanvir alias Chand and Abu Irfan, are in jail custody facing the charges, while more than a dozen are absconding.
The court has fixed June 9 for the next hearing of the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 26th, 2015.
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