KARACHI: Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, SP Rao Anwar Ahmed and four other police officers were finally booked on Friday in the killing case of two workers of the Sindh Tarraqi Pasand Party.
Earlier the police had refused to register a murder case of Baraat Kalamati and Hasan Magsi against the home minister, SP of Gadap, DSP Iftikhar Lodhi, SHO
Nasirul Hasan of the Sohrab Goth police station, SHO Amanullah of the Gulshan-i-Maymar police station and SHO Malik Mazhar Iqbal of the Gadap City police station.
The case (FIR 437/2009) was lodged on the orders of the Malir District and Sessions Judge Ghulam Mustafa Memon on an application moved by Ramzan Kalmati,
brother of one of the victims, under Section 22-A of the criminal procedure code.
The judge had directed the SHO of the Sohrab Goth police station on Wednesday to record the statement of the victim’s brother under Section 154 of the CRPC and register a case against the persons nominated by him.
The Capital City Police Officer, Wasim Ahmed, told Dawn that none of the suspects named in the FIR was so far arrested.
‘The FIR is only a statement of allegations and it has to be substantiated with cogent evidence to justify the arrest of a suspect,’ he said.
He said that a high-level investigation team, headed by DIG Investigation Ghulam Qadir Thebo and comprising two SPs, had been formed to investigate the case.
‘The investigation team has been instructed to conduct the investigation without any fear and favour and irrespective of the status and position of the suspects,’ he added.
‘In fact, the home minister voluntarily contacted the investigation team and asked them to record his statement in the case,’ the CCPO said.
He said that the police could have sought a legal remedy against the court order for the registration of a third FIR in the case. ‘But the home minister
wanted the court orders complied with and said that he believed in the rule of law,’ he said.
In reply to a question, Mr Ahmed said that none of the police officers named in the FIR had been placed under suspension.
‘We will examine the prima facia evidence against them and a legal action as well as a departmental action will be taken against them accordingly,’ he added.
Meanwhile, the victim’s brother, Ramzan Kalamati, demanded the immediate arrest of the suspects named in the FIR.
‘They must be brought to book,’ he added. He also demanded the immediate release of 37 STPP workers booked and arrested in the killing case of their party men.
He told Dawn that he did not have any confidence in the police investigation into the case. ‘The investigation must be conducted under the supervision of a
judicial officer so that the police investigators do not attempt to save their own colleagues,’ he said.
He added that there was little chance of his getting justice, as the suspects in the case were ‘too influential’.
The victim’s brother said that he would move the court again if the police tried to exonerate the suspects from the charges in their investigation
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