• Three CTD officers held for taking bribe to launch man detained illegally on return from Iraq
• SSP eliminated, DSP and SHO of CTD police station suspended
KARACHI: A person, kidnapped by the Counter-Terrorism Division quickly after his return from Iraq a few days in the past, was recovered and three policemen have been arrested in a Rangers raid on the premises of the CTD’s Civil Traces workplace, it emerged on Wednesday.
The Rangers motion triggered the Sindh police a significant embarrassment and led to the sacking of no less than three officers from their posts.
The incident came about late on Tuesday night time and on Wednesday the police registered a kidnapping case on the criticism of a Rangers official, who’s an uncle of sufferer Muhammad Aaliyan, towards the three CTD males — Sub-Inspector Tanveer Tahir, Assitant Sub-Inspector Shahid Husain and Constable Umer Khan.
The complainant knowledgeable the police that on Might 19 his nephew, Aaliyan, returned from Iraq and was taken away by plain-clothes males travelling in an official cell car on Sharea Faisal close to Wi-fi Gate.
Later, he acquired a telephone name from the mobile phone of his nephew. The caller launched himself as a CTD official and demanded Rs1.5 million for the protected launch of his nephew. He was instructed to return with cash on the Civil Traces workplace of the CTD.
The complainant stated that he had knowledgeable senior Rangers officers in regards to the incident and a Rangers crew was constituted and despatched to the CTD workplace. He stated he reached the stated workplace, the place non-public particular person Osama took the money on behalf of the CTD officers. Later, three policemen got here exterior and handed over his nephew and his baggage to him after they received money.
Later, he, together with the Rangers crew, entered the CTD premises once more and upon seeing them the non-public particular person fled.
Whereas the Rangers motion led to the arrest of the three CTD officers, Sindh Inspector Basic of Police Ghulam Nabi Memon shied away from calling it a raid on the workplace of the CTD.
When requested as as to if it was a raid, the IGP stated: “It was not towards the CTD workplace however towards two law enforcement officials of CTD for demanding cash to launch an accused.”
IGP removes SSP
Nevertheless, the police chief eliminated CTD SSP Imran Shaukat from his publish and directed him to report back to the Central Police Workplace.
CTD DSP Sohail Akhtar Sulehri and SHO Imdad Ali Khwaja have been suspended “pending departmental proceedings into their conduct”.
Narrating his facet of story, CTD DIG Asif Aijaz Shaikh instructed Daybreak that performing on a tip-off, a CTD crew detained Mohammed Aliyan on Might 19 when he got here out of the airport after visiting Iran and Iraq.
He was dropped at the CTD police station for interrogation. “Throughout an preliminary probe, he was put within the ‘gray’ checklist and was not declared ‘harmless’, claimed the officer.
Within the meantime, sure policemen contacted his household and demanded Rs1.5m for his launch. After negotiation, the CTD personnel agreed to take Rs150,000 as a bribe and launched him, the DIG added.
He stated that he and different officers reached the CTD workplace on Tuesday night time as quickly as they have been knowledgeable in regards to the incident. “After an inquiry, it was proved that three CTD personnel and their non-public informer have acquired the bribe for releasing the person,” he stated.
In the meantime, a Rangers spokesperson didn’t reply to Daybreak’s request for a remark.
Revealed in Daybreak, Might twenty third, 2024