May 31, 2003	Saturday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 28, 1424

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RAWALPINDI, May 30: Nine police personnel of the capital police, who had been booked in the armyman murder case in a joint military-police inquiry, have been suspended, an official source said on Friday.

The personnel, who were accused in the FIR registered with the Industrial Area police, are the then SHO inspector Raja Mohammad Asghar, sub-inspectors Ehsan Elahi, Safdar Hussain and Mohammad Arshad, head constable Ghazanfar Ali and constables Wasim Haider, Sohail Akhtar, Munir Hussain and Imdad Ali, the source said.

The then chief medical officer of Pims has also been identified as an accused for issuing fake postmortem report of deceased Sepoy Mohammad Abbas Shah.

Though the judicial and police inquiries had been carried out after the incident came to light in May 2002, the family of the deceased was not satisfied with the outcome.

A joint board of inquiry, comprising both the military and police officials, was then formed to probe the incident which came up with the findings that Abbas Shah had been tortured to death in police custody, the source said.

Mohammad Abbas Shah was posted in Quetta. He was picked up by the Industrial Area police from Faizabad bus stand.

According to the police report, SI Mohammad Arshad had found a body of an unknown person who later turned out to be Abbas Shah from Faizabad on May 22, 2002.