January 9, 2002	Wednesday	Shawwal 24, 1422

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GUJRANWALA, Jan 8: Four police officials were suspended from service on Tuesday on the charge of killing a man in a fake encounter and a case was registered against them.

These police officials went to the dera of Muhammad Hafeez in plain clothes in Ferozewala village to arrest an alleged proclaimed offender, Kaka Joolaha, on Monday. But they shot Hafeez dead while Kaka escaped from scene. They claimed that Hafeez had committed suicide. They removed the body to the Civil Hospital for an autopsy without informing their high-ups.

The family of Hafeez reportedly gathered outside Ferozewala police station and demanded that police officials involved in the killing should be arrested on murder charge.

The Gujranwala SSP reached the spot and got information about fake an encounter with police. He later visited Ferozewala police station and checked record and also interrogated the SHO and other senior police officers. He ordered registration of an FIR against police officials and also suspended them from service.

Those suspended are; Head Constable Ghulam Abbas, and constables Azizur Rehman, Ijaz Ahmad and Yasin Butt.

INQUIRY: The DIG ordered an inquiry against DSP Ijaz Ahmad Warraich for helping some alleged killers escape from Warraich house in cantonment and appointed CIA staff SP as inquiry officer.

The inquiry was ordered on the complaint of one Muhammad Anwar of Bhaki Sundhawan, Sialkot.