Naimat Khan
KARACHI: A joint interrogation team, headed by Additional IG Counter Terrorism Department, which was formed to investigate the murder case of Intezar recommended the involved 8 police officials should be challaned for their criminal act of merciless and cold-blooded killing of Intezar in a rash and negligent act, and not rescuing him after the firing incident.
“Name of head constable Ghulam Abbas should be placed in Column No. 2 of the charge sheet with blue ink as he was not present at the place of incident when firing took place”, recommended the JIT, which recommended strict departmental action against the involved Police officials. Inspector General of Police may look into the role of supervisory officers, including SSP ACLC Muqadas Haider and DSP ACLC for their failure to implement the Deployment Order issued for checking of vehicles in DHA area, the JIT recommended.
The JIT further recommends Sindh Police to draft and issue a comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for stop and search operations so that such unfortunate incidents could be avoided in future.
The JIT found that on 13.01.2018 Intezar’s car was stopped in front of Castle lights in Bukhari Commercial Area near Khayaban-e-Ittehad by 8 officials of Anti Car Lifting Cell.
HC Ghulam Abbass, who has been nominated in the FIR, was not present at the place of incident when the firing took place. The entire Police Party of ACLC was in plainclothes, contrary to the SOP issued by SSP ACLC in shape of a written deployment order.
PC Bilal and Daniyal, who were gunmen of SSP ACLC, went to the place of incident to deliver some personal items of SHO Inspector Tariq Mehmood. They were off duty and took part in the operation at their own, without any authorization by SHO ACLC Inspector Tariq Mehmood or SSP ACLC Muqudas Haider. PC Bilal and PC Daniyal fired on the vehicle, causing death of Intezar.
Examination of vehicle shows that there are three bullet marks, and two bullet scratch marks on the right/driver side of the vehicle due to ricochet of the bullet from the road. The evidence conclusively suggests that PC Bilal’s bullet hit Intezar and killed him.
Eighteen (18) empties were recovered from the crime scene. All eight weapons of ACLC officers were sent for forensic examination, along-with the recovered eighteen (18) empties. Forensic examination shows that only two weapons were used in the incident. Twelve (12) empties were fired from PC Bilal’s weapon and six (6) were fired form PC Muhammad Daniyal’s weapon.
After the incident, the entire police party fled away from the scene of incident. They should have stopped there and tried to evacuate the victim in an attempt to save his life.
The allegations of any connection or relation between Ms. Madiha Kiyani, who was present with Intezar at the time of firing incident, and SSP Muqudas Haider, were found to be incorrect and baseless. So far no involvement of any friend of Intezar namely Suleman and Saad in the firing incident was found.
During the course of JIT proceedings, involvement or nexus of Dr. Murad Wakeel in the killing of Intezar was found to be incorrect and baseless. So far the JIT could not find any evidence of involvement of Mah Rukh, Mr. Sohail or Inspector Amir Hameed in the shooting incident of Intezar. No technical or investigative link could be established between Mr. Sohail, inspector Amir and the ACLC team involved in the incident. The immigration FIA immigration record shows that Mr. Sohail departed from Pakistan on 5th May 2017 and Mahrukh departed from Pakistan on 18th August 2017.
JIT is of the opinion that the incident occurred due to stopping of Intezar’s car in a highly unprofessional manner by ACLC team in plainclothes, and unmarked vehicles without any police identification.
So far the JIT could not find any motive behind this killing. It appears cold-blooded rash and negligent killing by police officials in plainclothes.
The JIT noted that there is no general Standing Operating Procedure (SOP) in black and white to guide police officials for stop and search, delineating the role of plain clothes and uniformed personnel.
The viral video of Madiha Kiyani was recorded at the residence of Asif Khudai Advocate. Kazim Shah made Madiha record this statement under influence of drugs. Later on Madiha retracted from her statement.
