Picket police shoots man for not obeying orders
ISLAMABAD: The trigger happy police of the federal capital, continuing its macho image, shot and injured an innocent citizen at a picket in Bhara Kahu on Thursday night and then forced the victim to compromise or face charges of dacoity just to cover up their highhandedness. The victim was identified as Yasir, aged 30 years.
Earlier, the federal police had shot and killed a deaf person near E-11 picket on the suspicion of carrying explosives and later made it look like an event of a suicide bomber approaching them, by placing a suicide jacket and pistol with his dead body.
Eyewitnesses and relatives of latest victim revealed that on Thursday night when the police officials deployed at a picket near Bharakahu tried to stop a passing by car, they opened uncalled for firing on the victim who voluntarily stopped and stepped out of his car but ended up getting a shot in his leg.
According to details on Thursday some police officials stopped a vehicle on Murree Road near Bhara Kahu for its routine checking, but the vehicle stopped some steps ahead of the check post which annoyed the police officials. One of the officials in his annoyance fired a bullet which hit in Yasir’s leg, the 30-year-old driver of the car, while he was stepping out from his vehicle.
In an attempt to cover their mistake, the officials immediately sent a message to Bhara Kahu police station informing them that they have captured a dacoit who was injured when he resisted while being arrested.
A relative of Yasir told The Spokesman while requesting anonymity that “the senior police officials after reaching the location realized the sensitivity of the situation and shifted Yasir to Poly clinic where the doctors declared his condition out of danger. During the investigation the thing which shocked the police was that it was not easy to settle the dust as Yasir to whom police was considering an easy prey, is owner of a petrol pump in Rawalpindi”.
As soon Yasir became able to talk, the police pledged him to patch up by signing a written peace treaty, in which later it succeeded. Yasir was later shifted to a private hospital by his relatives.
When contacted, Bhara SHO Kahu Mehboob Ahmad told The Spokesman that “it was totally an accident. The official deployed at the checkpoint lost his balance during the checking of Yasir and in result a bullet was fired from his gun, accidently causing Yasir an injury. The cops themselves shifted him to the hospital. Yasir knew that he was not shot intentionally and the official did it by mistake for which he later patched up with us”.
On the other hand, when SSP Yaseen Farooque was contacted to know that either the police have enough authority to shoot an unarmed citizen for just having some suspicion, He did not receive the call. However the question about the police inquiry of the irresponsible officials was also remained unanswered as the Inspector general of Islamabad Police Bani Amin was also not available to talk as he was attending a marriage ceremony, told by his personal assistant.
Earlier, the federal police had shot and killed a deaf person near E-11 picket on the suspicion of carrying explosives and later made it look like an event of a suicide bomber approaching them, by placing a suicide jacket and pistol with his dead body.
Eyewitnesses and relatives of latest victim revealed that on Thursday night when the police officials deployed at a picket near Bharakahu tried to stop a passing by car, they opened uncalled for firing on the victim who voluntarily stopped and stepped out of his car but ended up getting a shot in his leg.
According to details on Thursday some police officials stopped a vehicle on Murree Road near Bhara Kahu for its routine checking, but the vehicle stopped some steps ahead of the check post which annoyed the police officials. One of the officials in his annoyance fired a bullet which hit in Yasir’s leg, the 30-year-old driver of the car, while he was stepping out from his vehicle.
In an attempt to cover their mistake, the officials immediately sent a message to Bhara Kahu police station informing them that they have captured a dacoit who was injured when he resisted while being arrested.
A relative of Yasir told The Spokesman while requesting anonymity that “the senior police officials after reaching the location realized the sensitivity of the situation and shifted Yasir to Poly clinic where the doctors declared his condition out of danger. During the investigation the thing which shocked the police was that it was not easy to settle the dust as Yasir to whom police was considering an easy prey, is owner of a petrol pump in Rawalpindi”.
As soon Yasir became able to talk, the police pledged him to patch up by signing a written peace treaty, in which later it succeeded. Yasir was later shifted to a private hospital by his relatives.
When contacted, Bhara SHO Kahu Mehboob Ahmad told The Spokesman that “it was totally an accident. The official deployed at the checkpoint lost his balance during the checking of Yasir and in result a bullet was fired from his gun, accidently causing Yasir an injury. The cops themselves shifted him to the hospital. Yasir knew that he was not shot intentionally and the official did it by mistake for which he later patched up with us”.
On the other hand, when SSP Yaseen Farooque was contacted to know that either the police have enough authority to shoot an unarmed citizen for just having some suspicion, He did not receive the call. However the question about the police inquiry of the irresponsible officials was also remained unanswered as the Inspector general of Islamabad Police Bani Amin was also not available to talk as he was attending a marriage ceremony, told by his personal assistant.
It is pertinent to mention that the incident was not first of its nature as in past the capital police has in several attempts victimized the citizens by putting fake allegations or just on suspicion.
On November 8, 2009, the capital police had shot dead a ‘deaf’ man near a check point on Margalla Road, Sector E-11, on the outer ring of Islamabad. The police had claimed the man was ordered to disembark from a vehicle, which he did but then continued to approach the check post ignoring shouts to halt. Fearing he was suicide bomber, they had shot at him fatally and alleged that the car carrying him had escaped toward Saddam Chowk on Margalla Road. He was immediately buried to H-11 graveyard without neither sharing any information nor any image of him to the media.
In September 2012, Saadat Ali aged 32 and suspect in a kidnapping case was tortured to death by Industrial Area Police during interrogation, only to later declare him innocent.
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