KARACHI: An employee of the Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) was killed in a road accident in DHA, it emerged on Sunday.

The Darakhshan police said that a fast-moving double cabin Vigo, bearing an official number plate of the government of Balochistan, first hit a car parked outside a bungalow on main Saba Avenue and later ran over the CBC employee, identified as Irshad, 35.

Subsequently, the driver hit a wall and the gate of another bungalow, which were collapsed because of the impact of the accident.

The police said that a young man and woman got off from the Vigo and ran away.

The CBC employee was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

The police registered an FIR on the complaint of another CBC employee, Aijaz Husain, against unknown suspect under Section 320 (manslaughter) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Police sources said the vehicle involved in the accident was official and a son of an influential person of Balochistan was driving it.

Meanwhile, DIG-South Syed Asad Raza said the Sindh police had notified the official vehicle to the Balochistan government. It transpired that the official Vigo belonged to the project director (PD)of a medical college in Naseerabad.

Later, the Balochistan government suspended PD Imtiaz Ahmed “on account of negligence and misuse of official vehicle involved in an accident in Karachi”.

52 detained for displaying arms

Police detained 52 persons for illegal display of arms in the Clifton and Defence areas.

DIG-South Syed Asad Raza said cases were registered against 11 persons under relevant laws and their arms were seized.

He said that 41 others were released after issuing a warning as they gave an undertaking that they would not display their licensed arms in future.

Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2024

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