Fake encounter? Police in cover bid after sharpened engineer dead
Four military commandos requisitioned for murder though no arrests so far. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Police on Thursday allegedly attempted to cover adult an occurrence in that their commandos apparently killed a sexagenarian male late on Wednesday dusk while critically injuring another after a brief chase.
The officials concerned reportedly left after a occurrence as a cops concerned were booked.
Syed Ijaz Shah and his friend, 60-year-old Syed Inayat Shah, had left to a roadside eatery circuitously a Rawal Dam Chowk on Wednesday dusk to suffer a dish together. Later, a dual left in Ijaz’s Suzuki Mehran Car.
As they sped towards a circuitously Margalla Town where Ijaz lived, they beheld a military outpost following them and flashing their lights during a car. Taking it for a vigilance to lift over, Ijaz parked his automobile by a side of a road.
“As shortly as we pulled over, they [police] non-stop glow during us,” Ijaz told The Express Tribune.
Inayat was shot by a appurtenance gun in his right armpit and died on a mark while Ijaz perceived 3 to 4 appurtenance gun bullets to his right leg.
The policemen left Inayat in a automobile and dragged Ijaz with them to a circuitously Rescue 1122 kiosk. They handed over a harmed male to a rescue workers, revelation a paramedics to take Ijaz to a sanatorium and afterwards left though revelation any central about what had happened.
Ijaz was shifted to a Polyclinic sanatorium where he perceived diagnosis for his bleeding leg.
The authorities usually found out about a shootout when a Rawal Town resident, who was an watcher to a incident, called a police. Residents pronounced that unchanging military showed adult during a stage around half an hour after a eventuality and shifted Inayat’s physique to a Polyclinic hospital.
Later on Wednesday night, a murder and an attempted murder box were purebred opposite a 4 unclear cops.
Police officials and witnesses during a eatery pronounced that a policemen were carrying tea during a eatery when they listened a male cheering during a Mehran automobile speeding away.
“Perhaps a policemen suspicion that someone had stolen a automobile or something else and were fleeing. They followed a automobile for around dual kilometres before a shootout,” pronounced a military officer who requested anonymity given he was not certified to pronounce to a media.
He combined that a male who had screamed during a automobile after told policemen that Ijaz had due him some income and had sped divided maybe in nonetheless another bid to hedge him.
However, comparison military officials termed a occurrence an ‘encounter’ and claimed that officials had unleashed a bombardment after they were dismissed on initial and that it was this retaliatory banishment that killed Inyat and harmed Ijaz.
Islamabad Police Inspector General’s Spokesperson Ziaul Qamar claimed that a military had recovered a pistol from a automobile and 3 casings of bullets that were reportedly dismissed on a military patrol.
However, both Ijaz and eyewitnesses refuted this claim.
“I have never dismissed a bullet in my whole life,” Ijaz exclaimed from his sanatorium bed.
“The dual group in a car, they did not offer any resistance. And no arms was recovered from their car. The policemen gathering divided with a harmed and left a physique behind,” an watcher said.
Inspector Ahmed Kamal, who was tasked with questioning a case, pronounced that he had nonetheless to see a pistol or a bullet casings that a indicted officials had found circuitously a crime scene.
Moreover, he combined that a instruction in that a bullets were dismissed into a automobile advise that dual apart guns had rained bullets.
Later, Qamar claimed that dual of a 4 officials concerned in a incident, Javed and Jameel Wali, had been arrested though a review officer was unknowingly of a arrests.
“No central has been arrested yet, not during slightest to my knowledge,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 1st, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1496248/fake-encounter-police-cover-bid-shooting-motorist-dead/