KARACHI: A sessions court has dismissed the pre-arrest bail plea of the driver of a police mobile van who allegedly ran over and killed a retired Pakistan Navy official in the Baloch Colony police station remit in an accident.

According to complainant Rao Bilal Ahmed, in December 2024, his elder brother, Muhammad Ayub, a retired lieutenant from the Pakistan Navy, was travelling on a motorcycle with his wife, Nasreen Kanwal, from Manzoor Colony.

He added that as they reached near Khatm-i-Nabuwwat Chowk, a police mobile, allegedly being driven recklessly and negligently by the applicant, hit their motorbike as a result both had sustained injuries.

Meanwhile, as a crowd gathered at the scene. The driver shifted the injured to PNS Shifa Hospital where Mr Ayub succumbed to his injuries.

After hearing arguments from both sides, Additional District and Sessions Judge Maqbool Ahmed Memon rejected the pre-arrest bail application of police constable Rao Muhammad Qasim on the ground that there was sufficient material prima facie connecting the applicant to the offence.

“Whether the police mobile was being driven in a rash and negligent manner is yet to be evaluated during trial,” the court observed, adding that the statement of deceased’s wife under Section 161 of the CrPC had allegedly implicated the applicant.

Published in Dawn, March 10th, 2025