MARDAN: A police official and a proclaimed offender were killed during an exchange of fire here on Saturday.
Officials said that a police team raided a motorcycle bargaining shop on a tip-off that a proclaimed offender was present there. They said that when the police reached the spot the outlaw opened fire on the personnel, killing constable Sartaj Bahadar on the spot.
The police retaliated the fire, killing the outlaw, namely Nisar.
However, family members of the slain person placed his body on the Mardan-Malakand Road in Thakhtbai area to protest the killing.
The road remained blocked for more than three hours.
They accused the police of shooting dead an innocent person as neither was he involved in any criminal activity nor was he wanted to the police in any case.
They demanded of the provincial government to hold a judicial inquiry into the killing.
Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2021
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