SC issues notice to ex-LTF officials

KARACHI - Supreme Court (SC) on Monday issued notice to the former officials of Lyari Task Force (LTF) to appear before the court in the next hearing against their barbaric act of alleged killing of Rasool Bakhsh Brohi since two years ago.

According to details, a three-member SC bench comprises on Justice Mohammad Musa K Laghari, Justice Zawar Hussain Jafri and Justice Sarmad Jalal conducted the hearing on the petition filed by the Sindh government.

Prosecutor General Sindh, Shahdat Awan, appeared before the bench on behalf of the government, the petitioner accused in their petition to 50 officials of LTF headed by SSP Chaudhry Aslam Khan and the police personnel associated with the force when they shot dead Rasool Brohi in a fake police encounter in Gaddap Town in 2006.

The Karachi Registrar of SC issued the notice to accused on behalf of the Capital City Police Official (CCPO), Karachi.