KARACHI: A sessions court on Monday dismissed the bail application of a police officer in a case pertaining to the killing of a young man in a ‘staged’ encounter.

Assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Faisal Jaffri and other policemen were booked for allegedly kidnapping Mohammad Ali Butt in December 2010 within the jurisdiction of the Baloch Colony police station, and killing him in a fake encounter.

The ASI, through his lawyer, moved a bail application and after hearing arguments from both sides, the additional district and sessions judge (south) Abdul Quddus Memon turned down the application.

The head constables, Shafiq Anjum and Ijaz Ahmed, and constables Namoos Khan, Mazhar Hussain and Abdul Latif, then posted at Ferozabad police station, were also named in the case. However, the court discharged Anjum and Latif after the complainant pardoned them while the remaining policemen are absconders.

A case was registered under Sections 365 (kidnapping with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person), 302 (punishment for premeditated murder), 109 (abetment), and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the deceased’s father.

ASI Jaffri remained an absconder in the case until he was arrested along with his six colleagues in April last year in Gulistan-e-Jauhar in another case pertaining to kidnapping for ransom.

Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2016