KARACHI: Police postings for rape, burn cases ordered
KARACHI, July 24: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has directed the Inspector General of Police to ensure immediate posting of an ASI rank official at each police station to deal with rape and burn cases and coordinate with all public and private hospitals for providing timely assistance to the victim women.
“Such measures were essential to dispense the victims with immediate justice, as the prolonged and complicated procedures often destroy the evidences,” he said in a letter addressed to the IGP on Monday.
The home minister said that all public and private hospitals should tackle the rape and burn cases on priority basis. “This would help save the lives of victims and the evidences of the crime,” he added.
Rauf Siddiqui said it had been observed that the victim families suffered mental agony undergoing lengthy and complicated procedures, therefore special measures were required to mitigate their sufferings. He also stressed on taking steps for carrying out investigations without waste of time in such cases.
In a meeting with DIG Traffic Falak Khursheed, the minister directed that traffic police officials should enforce law without accepting any undue pressure from any quarter. However, he made it clear that they should not harass people unnecessarily and must show politeness especially when families were travelling in vehicles. “Enforcing laws does not mean harassing citizens,” he added.
The minister was informed that traffic police challaned 14,109 vehicles with tinted glasses, pressure horns, emergency lights, hooters, fancy number plates and illegal personalised number plates during the last six months and recovered fine of Rs2,078,600. Similarly, Rs3,195,200 were charged as fine from 15,976 smoke-emitting vehicles during this period.
Rauf Siddiqui appealed to the citizens to remove illegal accessories from the vehicles as otherwise stern action would be taken under the law.—PPI
