KARACHI, April 12: Police raided a house in Gulistan-i-Jauhar to pick up two youths on Saturday night. The inmates alleged that the raiding party ransacked the house and used abusive language with the family before taking away the two brothers, Waqas Azim and Jawwad Azim.
The family complained that the police had been declining to disclose the whereabouts of the detainees since the raid, second on their house in three weeks. Narrating the ordeal, a sister of the detainees said that on March 23, the SHO of Boating Basin had raided the house in Rabia City, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, and picked up Waqas accusing him of being involved in terrorist activities.
The police, however, had showed his arrest at Kundan Market, Boating Basin. The FIR registered against him pertained to the possession of illegal weapons. Later, the family managed to get Waqas released on bail through a court.
Again on April 10, she said, the house was raided by the police who whisked away Waqas and his brother Jawwad. The police ransacked ¨the house and used abusive language with the women members of the family, she alleged.
She moaned that the family was running from pillar to post to ascertain the whereabouts of the detainees but to no avail. The police have been denying that Waqas and Jawwad were in their custody, she said, adding that the family was perturbed about their well-being.
She said that a stranger, identifying himself as Nasir and claiming to be an official of an intelligence agency, had come to their house and demanded money for the release of her brothers. He was handed over to the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police where his name turned out to be Irfan.
She approached the IGP and TPO Saddar and told them that her brothers were businessmen and had never been involved in any criminal activities. She feared that her brothers might be implicated in some false criminal or terrorism case.
Meanwhile, police sources said that an inquiry against the SHO Boating Basin for raiding the house had been initiated. The officials in the Crime Investigation Department (CID), Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) and the investigation wing have all denied having the two suspects in their custody.
Sources in the police department said that Waqas and Jawwad were being interrogated jointly by the police and an intelligence agency with regard to a 'high-profile case'.
