August 10, 2006	Thursday	Rajab 14, 1427

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ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Sindh Police to produce a Karachi Superintendent of Police, Chaudhry Aslam, in the court on Thursday for killing an innocent person in a fake police encounter.

A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan and Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad issued the orders on the allegations that Mr Aslam had killed a labourer, Rasul Bakhash Brohi, in place of a proclaimed offender, Mashuq Brohi, in Karachi.

The bench also rejected a police investigation report in which it had stated that all the accused policemen in the killing case had been suspended including the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Baghdadi police station, Naseerul Hassan, and two sub inspectors of Lyari Task Force, Asif Jamil and Mir Feroz.

Expressing dismay over sparing SP Chaudhry Aslam in the police inquiry, the bench ordered the DIG (Investigation) to arrest the SP and produce him before the court on Thursday.

The bench also admonished the police for not arresting the big bosses and only making the lower staff as scapegoats. Some big officers would go behind bars only then the police would realize as to how much valuable was a human life, the bench observed.

The chief justice also described the incident as a mere carelessness and arbitrariness of the police in the field and observed that the system would be strengthened only when high-ups of police would be made accountable before the public and law.

Amir Bhumbro, president of the Sindh National Party, had sought the suo motu attention of the chief justice through an application towards the killing incident of Rasul Bukhsh Brohi.