GDA lawmaker calls out ‘errant cops’ in Sindh Assembly
Says police facilitating abductors in ransom collection; house passes law increasing sentence in narcotics cases
Sindh Assembly Session. PHOTO: NNI
KARACHI:
The role of errant police personnel in facilitating kidnaping for ransom incidents dominated the proceedings in the Sindh Assembly on Friday after an opposition lawmaker drew the house’s attention towards it.
MPA Nand Kumar Goklani of the Grand Democratic Alliance, moving a call attention notice on the law and order situation, said that around 159 people were kidnapped during 2020 and most of them were released after ransom was paid. “Instead of taking action against the kidnappers, they [the police] played the role of facilitators and paid the ransom to dacoits,” he said, citing eye witness accounts by victims’ families. “Where is the writ of law that you always claim,” he asked of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government, adding that most of the ruling party’s blue eyed boys, posted as police officers, have contacts with kidnappers.