KARACHI: DSP gets pre-arrest bail in custodial death case
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 5: The district and sessions judge, South, Agha Rafique Ahmed Khan, granted, on Friday, anticipatory bail to a deputy superintendent of police allegedly involved in the killing of a man in police custody.
DSP Saad Ullah Bangash, who, along with other police officials, was booked in the murder case (FIR No 130/99) on the complaint of the victim’s mother, was given bail-before-arrest in the sum of Rs100,000.
Dur Bibi, the elderly mother of 34-year-old Abdus Sattar Baloch, got the FIR registered against the DSP and other officials of CIA Centre, Saddar, through orders of the Sindh High Court on March 6, 1999.
The widowed mother alleged that drunk CIA Centre officials, headed by Sub-inspector Ghulam Ismail, stormed into her house around 10:00pm on Jan 30, 1999, in Kalakot and took her son away after manhandling the family, including women.
According to her, the SI, who also resorted to firing both in and outside her house, had arrested Abdus Sattar on the orders of DSP Saad Ullah Bangash and many of the locality people witnessed the incident.
Later, she alleged that her son was killed in the CIA Centre due to severe torture by police officials.
Dur Bibi had earlier appealed to the Chief Executive for the arrest of the alleged killer cops so that they would be tried in an open court.
However, none of the police officials booked in the case were arrested for reasons best known to the police department.
MQM MAN GETS BAIL: The additional district and sessions judge, East, Syed Sagher Hussain Zaidi, granted bail to a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, booked for possessing an unlicensed AK-47 rifle (Kalashnikov).
The judge granted bail to Muhammed Arif alias Dumba, arrested by the Korangi police this year, in the sum of Rs100,000.
