SANGHAR: 5 police inspectors and their 10 subordinate personnel have been declared responsible of killing two suspects in custody in faux encounters at totally different locations in Sanghar district on Could 20.
Ali Hyder Roonjho and Soomar Mahar have been shot useless by a police crew and Sanghar SSP Zeeshan Shafique Siddiqui had claimed that the 2 males, wished by police in some prison circumstances, resisted their arrest within the Perumal space of Sanghar district. They and have been ultimately killed within the ensuing encounter and arms and ammunition have been seized from them, he stated. Nevertheless, the bereaved households contested the police declare and held a collection of protests together with civil society activists in lots of areas of the district.
The protest drive continued for a few weeks and was stopped when an inquiry into the matter was ordered by the chief minister. The SSP was suspended to facilitate the probe.
On June 20, the Further Periods Choose of Khipro, Inayatullah Bhutto, ordered registration of an FIR in opposition to the police crew however it was not completed by the SHO involved.
The Roonjho and Mahar communities of the realm together with the bereaved households recorded their statements earlier than the inquiry crew insisting that Ali Hyder and Soomar have been arrested in a case of kidnapping of a dealer in Khipro. They alleged that the police crew took Ali Hyder to a spot alongside Dosoo Wah (irrigation channel) in Perumal and Soomar Mahar to the Chabarlo locality in Jhol city to kill them in faux encounters on Could 20.
On Thursday, the Shaheed Benazirabad SSP made the inquiry report public. It discovered inspectors Aalan Abbasi, Ishaq Sangrasi, Gulzar Marri, Zulfiqar Pahi and Shareef Jamali, together with their 10 subordinate personnel nominated by the bereaved households, responsible of extrajudicial killing of the 2 suspects. All of the law enforcement officials and personnel have been sacked.
Chatting with the media, relations of Ali Hyder Roonjho expressed their dismay over the clear chit given by the inquiry crew to SSP Zeeshan Shafique Siddiqui.
Printed in Daybreak, October 24th, 2020
