SC issues notice to ex-LTF officials
By SHAFI BALOCH September 30, 2008 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.
The petitioner submitted that the LTF police team caught Rasool Bakhsh Brohi from Nawabshah around two years ago and brought him to Karachi, where after passing of two days, the police shot him dead in a fake encounter in the wake of notorious gangster, Mashooque Brohi.
The police also showed the deceased as Mashooq Brohi in the FIR, while after the incident, the deceased was identified as Rashool Bakhsh Brohi by his family members.
When the news was spread, SC took suo motto action of the incident just after passing of few weeks. Petitioner also submitted that on the directives of Supreme Court, when the hearing regarding the case were conducting none of the witness was produced before the court except only one witness Siddique Brohi, cousin of the deceased, but later he was forced to submit his statement before the court in favour of the accused. Neither the other witnesses nor the investigation official were produced before the court.
Later, Sindh High Court made a base of the statement of Siddique Brohi and issued order to release the police officials. However, the inquiry committee formed by the then Sindh government to probe into the case, and after investigation, they found that the encounter was fake and the police instead of Mashooq Brohi had killed an innocent citizen Rasool Bakhsh Brohi. The court sentenced a life prison a culpable found guilty.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Central, Gulshan Arahi, sentenced life prison to Mohammad Riaz after found him guilty of killing a person Mohammad Sardar since eight years ago. The court also issued orders to pay compensation of Rs 6,50,000 to the family of deceased.
According to the prosecutor, the guiltier shot dead Mohammad Sardar on October 8, 2000, in Nazimabad area, later he was arrested by the Nazimabad police. The court has issued the order after proving the allegation.