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KOHAT: The family of Shahzeb, the alleged facilitator in the murder case of medical student Asma Rani, has accused the police of implicating him in the case to cover up their inefficiency.
Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, Zeb Hassan Advocate, the brother of Shahzeb, and his father Aurangzeb, expressed distrust in the police investigation and asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take sou motu action against ‘injustices’ being meted out to them.
They disclosed that the police were claiming that Shahzeb was arrested from an unknown location which was wrong.
Zeb Hassan said a police inspector came to their house and said Shahzeb was wanted in Asma Rani case and demanded his custody.
Claims he was tortured in custody
On the occasion, Shahzeb’s father said: “I told the police that Shahzeb is presently not at home and as soon as he returns they will bring him to the district police office. Consequently, we took Shahzeb to the DPO office accompanied by former MPA Iftikharuddin Khattak, former presidents of Kohat bar Amaad Azam and Khursheed Advocates and eight other elders. The DPO said that they will question him briefly and then release him. But when my son did not come back home by evening I was scared and contacted the police who told me that he is involved in the high profile murder case. He was then tortured the whole night.”
Aurangzeb said he was ready to swear on the holy Quran that his son was innocent, adding he was a cancer patient so why would he tell a lie.
He said police from Punjab should be brought to investigate the case as he did not trust the KP police.
Zeb Hassan also claimed he had the video when the police were parking the motorcycle in their house, which was later alleged by the police to have been used in the girl’s murder.
Amaad Azam Advocate, when contacted by Dawn to know whether he accompanied Shahzeb to the DPO office, he said the family of Shahzeb had twisted the whole story, and that he would give details in that regard soon.
ARMS SMUGGLING BID FOILED: The Shakardarra police foiled an attempt of smuggling huge quantity of unlicensed weapons to Punjab and arrested an arms dealer from remote Rehmanabad area on Monday.
SHO Shakardarra police of Lachi tehsil, Afzal Awan, conducted a raid at a warehouse on a tip-off that an arms dealer had gathered weapons for smuggling them to Punjab’s Mianwali district during night.
Forty pistols, five repeaters, a shogun, and 6,929 cartridges of various bores were recovered.
The accused, Umar Gul was arrested, who admitted he received the consignment from Darra Adamkhel.
Meanwhile, the police conducted raids in Lachi, Ghamkol and Ublan Afghan refugee camps, Jungle Khel and Muhammadzai areas and arrested 66 suspects, including proclaimed offenders, and recovered arms from them.
The seizure included five Kalashnikovs, two kalakovs, two repeaters, four shotguns, three rifles and 37 pistols.
Published in Dawn, February 13th, 2018
https://www.dawn.com/news/1389147
Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, Zeb Hassan Advocate, the brother of Shahzeb, and his father Aurangzeb, expressed distrust in the police investigation and asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take sou motu action against ‘injustices’ being meted out to them.
They disclosed that the police were claiming that Shahzeb was arrested from an unknown location which was wrong.
Zeb Hassan said a police inspector came to their house and said Shahzeb was wanted in Asma Rani case and demanded his custody.
Claims he was tortured in custody
On the occasion, Shahzeb’s father said: “I told the police that Shahzeb is presently not at home and as soon as he returns they will bring him to the district police office. Consequently, we took Shahzeb to the DPO office accompanied by former MPA Iftikharuddin Khattak, former presidents of Kohat bar Amaad Azam and Khursheed Advocates and eight other elders. The DPO said that they will question him briefly and then release him. But when my son did not come back home by evening I was scared and contacted the police who told me that he is involved in the high profile murder case. He was then tortured the whole night.”
Aurangzeb said he was ready to swear on the holy Quran that his son was innocent, adding he was a cancer patient so why would he tell a lie.
He said police from Punjab should be brought to investigate the case as he did not trust the KP police.
Zeb Hassan also claimed he had the video when the police were parking the motorcycle in their house, which was later alleged by the police to have been used in the girl’s murder.
Amaad Azam Advocate, when contacted by Dawn to know whether he accompanied Shahzeb to the DPO office, he said the family of Shahzeb had twisted the whole story, and that he would give details in that regard soon.
ARMS SMUGGLING BID FOILED: The Shakardarra police foiled an attempt of smuggling huge quantity of unlicensed weapons to Punjab and arrested an arms dealer from remote Rehmanabad area on Monday.
SHO Shakardarra police of Lachi tehsil, Afzal Awan, conducted a raid at a warehouse on a tip-off that an arms dealer had gathered weapons for smuggling them to Punjab’s Mianwali district during night.
Forty pistols, five repeaters, a shogun, and 6,929 cartridges of various bores were recovered.
The accused, Umar Gul was arrested, who admitted he received the consignment from Darra Adamkhel.
Meanwhile, the police conducted raids in Lachi, Ghamkol and Ublan Afghan refugee camps, Jungle Khel and Muhammadzai areas and arrested 66 suspects, including proclaimed offenders, and recovered arms from them.
The seizure included five Kalashnikovs, two kalakovs, two repeaters, four shotguns, three rifles and 37 pistols.
Published in Dawn, February 13th, 2018
https://www.dawn.com/news/1389147
