KARACHI, Oct 1: Alleging a plot to implicate a party worker in the murder case of Advocate Naimat Randhawa, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement has called upon the prime minister and interior minister to immediately set up a committee to monitor arrests being made during the ongoing operation in Karachi.

In a statement, the MQM coordination committee condemned allegations levelled by Karachi police chief Shahid Hayat regarding the involvement of the MQM worker in the case.

It said that the police official had stated at a press conference that Kazim Abbas Rizvi had been arrested on Monday night, but he had been in police custody for five days, since his detention on Sept 27.

The MQM said police had earlier arrested former MQM lawmaker Nadeem Hashmi in the case of killing of two policemen but the allegation turned out to be false and he was released. “Now they are trying to falsely implicate the MQM in the Randhawa murder case.”

The committee said a person should be produced in a court after arrest but it was unjust to treat someone as guilty on the basis of mere accusations.

It urged PM Nawaz Sharif and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to constitute a committee comprising impartial people to prevent arrest of innocent people and their implication in false cases.