SUKKUR: After a substantial delay, police have lastly registered a case pertaining to the targeted killing of journalist Nasrullah Gadani in Mirpur Mathelo underneath anti-terrorism regulation, it emerged on Tuesday.
Gadani was focused in his hometown by three assailants on Might 21. He was initially taken to a hospital in Rahim Yar Khan from the place he was airlifted to Karachi, the place he died at a hospital on Might 24.
The police mentioned that the FIR was lodged underneath Sections 302 (premeditated homicide) 337-H (punishment for damage by rash or negligent act), 120-B (felony conspiracy), 506 (felony intimidation) and 34 (frequent intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code learn with Part 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 on the Mirpur Mathelo police station.
DIG-Sukkur Pir Mohammed Shah informed Daybreak that the FIR was registered on the grievance of Gadani’s mom Ms Pathani.
On Tuesday, the DIG termed the homicide a “blind case” and mentioned that the police picked up a number of suspects, however launched all of them after questioning.
“We have now not acquired any clear clue within the homicide case of Nasrullah Gadani,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that the police have been investigating the case from all angles. “We have now been trying into the life-style of the slain journalist to know what issues he was dealing with and who his opponents and rivals have been,” he added.
It might be recalled right here that the fee for the safety of journalists and different media practitioners (CJMP) had already rejected the investigation workforce shaped to probe the focused assault and directed the inspector common of police to kind a brand new committee.
The fee had additionally requested the IGP that the top of the brand new particular investigation workforce and its members shouldn’t be taken from Sukkur.
Printed in Daybreak, Might twenty ninth, 2024