SHC orders action against police party
Deceased suspect implicated in several crimes in statement issued by Rangers on day of ‘encounter’
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KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court directed legal action against the police party involved in an alleged police encounter, dubbing the encounter ‘fake’.
A two-member bench, headed by Justice Nazar Akbar and comprising Justice Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan, heard the plea pertaining to the matter.
Observing that the suspect was shot in the chest 12 times but no bullets were fired in return and not a single police official was injured in the alleged encounter, Justice Akbar remarked that the series of events narrated by the police is based on fiction. Why did the police need to fire so many bullets when there was no retaliation from the opposite side, he asked.