LARKANA: Deputy Inspector General of Police Larkana Range on Tuesday suspended three station house officers (SHOs) and ordered to launch an inquiry into their conduct in the wake of death of two police officials and a suspect in an encounter with outlaws in Wada Mahar village on Monday night.

The suspended officials Inspector Mohammad Urs Noonari, sub-inspector Talib Hussain Junejo and sub-inspector Ali Hassan Mugheri, who had had taken part in the Monday night encounter, were shifted to police lines and asked not to make any move without permission of high-ups, said the order. DIG Mazhar Nawaz Shaikh, through another order, constituted a four-member fact finding team to probe the encounter. The team would interview all police officials concerned and check calls and wireless log, said the order.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2021