NAWABSHAH, March 17: The brother of a murdered man has appealed to the Sindh chief minister and governor to provide him justice and direct the police authorities to ensure arrest of the killers.
Arshad Ali accompanied by two children of the deceased said at a press conference that his brother Rashid Ali was shot dead by some unidentified people near Nawabshah stadium in June, 2006, and he lodged an FIR against at the A-section police station.
However, he said, sub-inspector Ghulam Nabi Kharal and inspector Taj Mohammad Rajput of the investigation wing, instead of conducting proper investigation, arrested their friends and relatives and later released them after getting bribe.
Ali said that as the investigation lingered on, his family received threats and phone calls from anonymous people, asking them to abandon the case otherwise they would be killed.
He said that as he had lost trust in the investigation, he submitted an application to the Sindh police chief for transfer of the investigation. The case was transferred to the AIG, crime and investigations, Hyderabad, but so far no breakthrough had been made in the investigation, he added.
He appealed to the chief minister and governor to transfer the investigation to crime branch, Karachi.
HEARING ADJOURNED: The district and sessions judge on Friday adjourned the hearing of Rasool Bux Brohi murder case till April 10.
Line officer, Police Lines, submitted an application in the court, stating that due to tight duty schedule and law and order situation, the accused could not be brought to Nawabshah for hearing.
Brohi, a labourer, was killed in a fake encounter in Karachi by a police team led by Chaudhry Aslam of the Lyari Task Force. The police had claimed that they had killed a notorious bandit.
ACCIDENT: At least seven people were injured when a van hit a tree on Daur-Nawabshah road on Friday. Those injured were taken to the Nawabshah Medical College Hospital where they were admitted.
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