• Video clips of incident despatched to FIA for forensic examination
• Raoof was goal of comparable assault by ‘eunuchs’ just a few days in the past as nicely
• PTI alleges FIR tampered with, calls for judicial inquiry into case
ISLAMABAD: A 3-member particular investigation group (SIT) was constituted beneath the senior superintendent of police (investigation) on Wednesday to look into the attack on PTI Central Data Secretary Raoof Hasan.
The group was notified by IGP Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi, in response to the PRO of the police division.
Nonetheless, PTI expressed dissatisfaction with the federal government’s transfer and demanded a judicial fee to carry the precise perpetrators of the act to justice.
Seven to eight video clips of the assault collected by the police from completely different sources, together with a information TV channel, had been despatched to the Federal Investigation Company for forensic examination. The PRO mentioned police had additionally examined the footage and movies, however faces of the attackers weren’t clear.
He added that geo-fencing of the realm is being performed to mark the suspects and determine the attackers amongst them.
The Aabpara police registered a case beneath Sections 324, 109 and 34 of PPC in opposition to the unidentified attackers in response of a grievance lodged by Raoof Hasan.
In line with the FIR, Mr Hasan appeared at GNN TV channel in G-7 at round 5:30pm on Tuesday and as he walked in direction of his automobile after recording the programme a person, who gave the impression to be a eunuch, stopped him as deliberate and attacked him. Within the meantime, three others, two of them appear to be transgender, additionally attacked Mr Hasan and made an try to kill him with a sharp-edged weapon by focusing on his neck.
The PTI spokesperson sustained a extreme lower on his face and began bleeding from the deep wound above the jugular vein, the FIR mentioned.
The attackers saved threatening Mr Hasan to kill him, it mentioned, including that within the meantime passersby gathered there, and seeing them the attackers escaped. Mr Hasan mentioned he has no private enmity with anybody.
This was the second such incident over the previous few days. In line with FIR, two days in the past, three to 4 transgender individuals made an try to assault Mr Hasan exterior the places of work of a information channel in Blue Space. Nonetheless, individuals current there saved him.
Authorized motion ought to be taken in opposition to the attackers and a case must also be registered over the incidents, in addition to offering safety to him, the FIR mentioned.
‘Assassination try’
Addressing a presser, PTI Secretary Basic and Opposition Chief within the Nationwide Meeting Omar Ayub rejected the FIR and demanded the formation of a judicial fee to carry the precise perpetrators to justice.
He known as the incident a well-planned assassination try, claiming that attackers weren’t transgender however well-trained assassins.
Raoof Hasan, Azam Swati and former Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister Khalid Khurshid had been current on the event.
The opposition chief alleged that police had tampered with the FIR as terror cost had been omitted from it, including that Raoof Hasan’s assertion talked about the occasions however the police didn’t point out terrorism cost within the FIR.
“We categorically reject and condemn the cast FIR that was lodged by the Islamabad police. It’s an try to sabotage the integrity of the case,” he added.
Who exerted stress on the police to register that FIR, which didn’t even point out the phrase terrorism even if an assassination try was clearly an act of terrorism, he requested. Due to this fact, he added, they demand a right away formation of a judicial fee to take to process the true culprits.
He made it clear that if the PTI management was focused in such a fashion once more, the occasion would stage peaceable protests throughout the nation and the direct influence of those protests can be focused at Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz.
In the meantime, Omar Ayub rejected the Punjab defamation regulation, accusing the federal government of planning to stifle the sane voices.
Raoof Hasan mentioned the attackers saved on saying, “We’re after you”.
Azam Swati whereas condemning the assassination try recalled what had been accomplished with Shahbaz Gill throughout custody, his (Swati’s) household and different PTI individuals.
Printed in Daybreak, Could twenty third, 2024