KARACHI, Oct 13: Four policemen were injured on Monday when a group of prisoners became unruly and clashed with the staff at the Central Prison, police and witnesses said.
They said more than 50 jail inmates climbed to the rooftops of the barracks and rained brickbats on the jail guards.
The witnesses said the police fired teargas shells inside the state penitentiary to control the situation.
The chief minister’s adviser for prisons, Gul Mohammed Jakhrani, told Dawn that a group of jail inmates were demanding a separate ward. “The IG of prisons went to calm down the agitating prisoners and the trouble ended after a series of negotiations,” he said.
Mr Jakhrani added that the Central Prison was heavily overcrowded as more than 6,000 prisoners were lodged at the facility, built in 1891 by the British with an initial capacity of 900 men.
He said that four policemen were slightly injured in the trouble and they were given treatment at the jail hospital.
Constable shot dead
A constable was killed near Aladin Park by drive-by shooters in the evening.
The Aziz Bhatti police said Constable Khalid Yamin, son of Ameen, was waiting for bus at a bus stop when the occupants of a car opened fire on him. He died instantly.
The police said the victim was a resident of the PECHS and posted at the Azizabad police station.
They said the constable was at present posted at the home of the city nazim. No case was registered till late in the night.
Woman killed
A 35-year-old woman was killed when the minibus she was travelling in was fired upon near Naad-i-Ali chowk in Malir Colony.
The body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where the victim was identified as Saima, wife of Nadim.
The police said the bandits tried to intercept the minibus and they opened fire on it when the driver did not stop it.
They said a bullet hit the woman in the chest and she died before she could be shifted to the hospital.
The police said the woman was a worker at a biscuit manufacturing factory in Korangi and she was returning home from work.
Trader shot dead
A 32-year-old man was shot dead in his flat on Khyaban-i-Hafiz in the Defence Housing Authority.
The Darakhshan police arrested a man and a young woman for killing Mohammed Asif, son of Mohammed Hanif, a gold trader.
The SP of Clifton Town, Azad Khan, told Dawn that the victim’s friend, Adeel, and a woman, Sumera, hailing from Lahore, were arrested for killing the man.
He said the suspects and the victim had a private party at the latter’s home (D-42) on Street 16 in the night and the victim was shot at and fatally wounded at around 8am.
The SP said Adeel took the victim to the Dr Ziauddin Hospital in Clifton, where he died.
He said the victim’s friend informed the police that the victim was performing tricks with his licensed Cobra revolver when it went off and a bullet pierced his chest.
However, the SP said the victim’s brother lodged the case against Adeel and Sumera, who were accordingly arrested and booked in the case (FIR 478/2008) under Sections 302 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The police officer said the woman left the victim’s house after the incident and she was later arrested in a five-star hotel.
He said the victim ran his business in Dubai.
Body found
The partially decomposed body of an unknown man was found in a house in Gulshan-i-Sikandar, in the Jackson police limits.
The police said the body was found in the house of Saifur Rehman, a labourer, who with his family had left for his hometown, Toba Tek Singh, on the eve of Eid.
They said the house owner’s son, Faisal, reached his home in the morning and the area people told him that a stench was emitting from his locked house.
The police said the house owner had given the key of his house to a neighbour, Saeed, who was not traceable. They said the cellular phone of Saeed was constantly off.The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for a postmortem examination.
Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim, wearing white pajamas and a vest, appeared to be in early 40s.
They said the body was partially decomposed and it was at least eight days old.
The sources said the body did not bear any mark of torture and the victim had died due to strangulation.
The police have registered a case against unknown culprits on behalf of the state and kept the body at the Edhi morgue for identification.
Engineer shot dead
A 32-year-old engineer of merchant navy was shot dead by bandits in Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
The Aziz Bhatti police said the victim, Mohammed Nadeem Khan, son of Daud Khan, a resident of Aysha Heights in Block 17, was on his way back his home with his wife, Sumbul, after withdrawing cash from a nearby bank when two bandits on a motorcycle waylaid them.
They said the victim struggled with the bandits when they tried to snatch his wife’s handbag. The police said the bandits opened fire on the victim, killing him instantly, and fled after the bungled robbery.
The victim, father of three, was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where sources said the man had a single gunshot wound in the chest.
Strangled
A 35-year-old man was found trussed-up and strangled in Nawab Colony in Sector 13-A of Baldia Town.
The Moach Koh police said the victim, Siddique, son of Allah Wasaya, was a labourer hailing from Rahimyar Khan, and lived with two other labourers at a dera, shared accommodation.
They said the victim’s two mates left the house in the morning for work and the victim remained at the dera as he was not feeling well.
The police said the victim’s associates returned home in the evening to find the body of the man lying in the underground water tank.
They said the victim was trussed up and strangled with a piece of electric wire.
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