JIT Seeks More Time To Investigate Sahiwal Incident
Mahnoor Sheikh (@mahnoorsheikh03) Published January 22, 2019 | 01:55 PM
The JIT head said it would take a few more days to complete the report.
Lahore (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 22nd January, 2019) The report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe the Sahiwal incident has been delayed.
The head of the JIT, Additional IG Syed Ejaz Shah said that the report of such a big incident cannot be prepared in such a short time.
The JIT head said it would take a few more days to complete the report.
He further said that six police officials involved in the encounter are under arrest.
The JIT also visited the scene of the incident and went back to Lahore after recording statements of the eye-witnesses.
Syed Ejaz Shah said there was no pressure on the eye-witnesses. They only testified what they saw.
He said he will tell Punjab chief minister the same thing which is in front of the people and media.
He added that it will require at least 30 days to complete the investigation.
Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Amjad Javed Salimi had formed a four-member JIT, headed by Ejaz Shah, to investigate the killing of four persons in Sahiwal in an alleged encounter by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).
According to the Police sources on Saturday, officers of secret services would also be members of the JIT.
The incident took place at Qadirabad where a team of CTD Lahore, taking action against a suspected car, shot dead two men and two women.
Later, the CTD team took the bodies, children and other valuables from the vehicle. However, the team later on dropped the children at a filling station.
With the alleged shady encounter on a highway in Sahiwal district, a big question mark was posed on the functioning of Punjab Police.
The victims were first declared as kidnappers and then as terrorists from a proscribed group by the police force, which raised eyebrows on the alleged shootout, followed by contradictory witnesses' narratives.
As the incident drew wide ire and condemnation, demands are being made for a thorough probe.
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