KARACHI : Cops booked for injuring driver in crossfire
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 3: The Rizvia police have a registered a case against two constables of the Shamim Shaheed police station who are accused of causing injury to a rickshaw driver during, what they had claimed, an encounter with dacoits late Tuesday night.
The constables had reported that they were chasing dacoits riding a motorbike and tried to intercept them near Nazimabad No.2 on Tuesday night. An encounter ensued and the rickshaw driver, who was passing through the locality, was caught in the crossfire, they claimed.
SHO of the Rizvia police station Naveed Nasir said since it was an encounter, it could not be established as yet whose bullet had caused injury to the driver.
“The victim is not in a condition to talk nor have we received a confirmed medical report about the nature of his injury,” he stated.
However, he added, the Rizvia police had registered a case (FIR No.189/2007) under section 307 PPC (attempt to kill) and taken the two constables, Shamroz and Faraqat, into custody.
The victim is under treatment at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.
Sources at the hospital stated that the driver, aged around 35, had received a single bullet in his head and was in a precarious condition till Wednesday night. Further medical investigations were needed to determine whether the bullet belonged to the police or the criminals, they maintained.
Kidnappers kill captive
The body of a local businessman’s driver, who was kidnapped along with his employer’s four-year-old son for ransom, was found on Wednesday.
The kidnappers had released the boy apparently after receiving the ransom but might have killed the driver after being recognised, police stated. A murder case has been registered against the unknown killers by the Baloch Colony police.
SP Clifton Azad Khan said that the Frere police had on Tuesday registered the kidnapping case on the complaint of the businessman, who said that his son and driver were on way back home from a school when kidnapped. The kidnappers released his son on the same evening but kept the driver in their custody, he added.
