GUJRANWALA, Jan 30: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 on Friday withdrew its order of the arrest of Gujranwala former DIG Malik Iqbal, Sialkot former DPO Amjad Javed Saleemi, Gujrat DPO Raja Munawar Husain and officials of the Elite Force.
The court took this decision when the prosecution pleaded that permission had already been sought from the federal government to include these senior police officers in the Sialkot jail case investigation. It hoped that the government would reply soon.
The court accepted the plea and withdrew the orders of the senior policemen's arrest. The court adjourned the hearing till Feb 16. Meanwhile, the judge denied re-issuing warrants for the arrest of these police officers on Thursday.
ASI CASE: The District Bar Association on Friday moved the district and sessions judge with a complaint that the police officials, including ASI (traffic), who manhandled and stripped a lawyer for challaning a motorcycle-rickshaw driver, were yet to be arrested.
DBA Secretary-General Malik Muhammad Sarwar Awan requested the court that ASI Zahoor Husain and other policemen should be arrested and an impartial inquiry conducted against them.
The DPO, city SP and the Kotwali police station SHO were among the respondents. The judge, Riazul Hassan, accepted the petition for hearing and adjourned it for today (Saturday).
DPO Saud Aziz claimed that ASI Zahoor Husain had been suspended from service while an inquiry was being conducted against him. The Rail Bazaar police chowki in-charge, SI Rana Muhammad Ashraf, had been sent to the police lines, he added. Meanwhile, the lawyers decided at a meeting that they would boycott courts today.
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