KARACHI: People suffer for absence of vehicle testing
By Arman Sabir
KARACHI, Dec 15: A number of people are faced with hardships as the process of chemical testing of vehicles is not being carried out either at the Criminology Division or on the premises of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell.
Well-placed sources said that more than 15 vehicles were detained on suspicion of their chassis and engine numbers and their fate would be decided after the chemical examination to ascertain their numbers were genuine. Besides, the sources said that many vehicles were not impounded and an undertaking had been taken from their owners to take their vehicles on call.
The process of chemical testing of vehicles was shifted to the Sindh Forensic Science Laboratory in Garden police headquarters known as the Criminology Department in September last. Later in the last week of November, the IG Sindh police issued the orders to shift the process of vehicles’ examination again to the ACLC, as was the practice in the past.
The reason why the process of examination was shifted again to the ACLC was that the authorities had taken serious notice of an 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 on Super Highway.
A Land Cruiser jeep (BC-4837), fitted with a tracker device, crossed the city on Nov 19. The tracker company had 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 Criminology Division. Two police guards in civvies, a serving judge, and a bureaucrat were also present in the jeep; 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 to attend a wedding ceremony.
The DIG Headquarters Saud Mirza had confirmed the issuance of orders about the shifting of chemical testing of vehicles from Garden police headquarters to the ACLC in Sharifabad. However, despite the issuance of the orders, the chemical testing of vehicles could not be resumed and the people, whose vehicles were impounded, had been facing trouble, the sources added.
