KARACHI, Dec 1: The process of chemical testing of vehicles would be carried out again on the premises of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) office in Sharifabad instead of the Criminology Division at the Garden police headquarters, police officials said.

The authorities had taken serious notice of the incident in which a police encounter was averted last minute and an inquiry was constituted into the matter that a vehicle, which had been parked in the office of the criminology division for chemical testing, was recovered from a police officer.

Police authority has issued orders that the chemical examination of vehicles would again be performed on the premises of the ACLC office, as was the practice in the past.

The provincial police chief issued instructions stating, “In future forensic examinations of vehicles will be carried out at the ACLC. The staff of the criminology branch would examine vehicles in presence of the representatives of the ACLC and the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC).”

The DIG Headquarters, Saud Mirza, confirmed the issuance of orders about the shifting of the chemical testing of vehicles from the Garden police headquarters to the ACLC.

This step had been taken after the police had intercepted a jeep on Super Highway as stolen, which turned out to be in the possession of a superintendent of police. Some two months back, the authorities on the request of the SP of criminology division had shifted the holding of chemical testing from ACLC to the criminology division.

A land cruiser jeep (BC-4837), fitted with a tracker device, crossed the city on Nov 19. The tracker company jammed it and the police were informed immediately. The police challenged the occupants of the jeep and any mishap was averted after one of the occupants introduced himself as Noor Ahmed Peechuho, SP of the Sindh Forensic Science Laboratory known as the Criminology Division. Two police guards in civvies, a serving judge, and a bureaucrat were also present in the jeep in question; the sources said and added that the SP had to send back the jeep to his office. The judge called his own car and all of them proceeded to Hyderabad.