RAWALPINDI: The mother of the two men who were killed in what the police say was an ‘encounter’ filed a petition in the court of an additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) and has accused the DSP cantonment, SHO R.A Bazaar, additional SHO Saddar Berooni and 15 other police officers of killing her sons.

In response to Balqees Akhtar’s complaint, the ADSJ on Tuesday directed City Police Officer (CPO) Israr Ahmed Khan Abbasi, DSP Saddar Circle Saleem Khattak and SHO Saddar Berooni to submit written comments regarding Ms Akhtar’s complaint.

ADSJ Gulfaraz Ahmed Khalid gave the officers till March 9 to submit their comments in response to the application filed by Ms Akhtar under section 22-A of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Filed through Advocate Malik Sajid Awan, the complaint accuses DSP Cantonment Raja Taifur Akhtar, SHO R.A Bazaar SI Malik Sajid, Additional SHO Saddar Berooni SI Tariq Gondal and 10 to 15 unknown police men of taking two of her sons, Waseem Anwarul Haq and Mohammad Irfan, from their house and killing them later.

In her plea, she has asked for the registration of a murder case and said that the policemen had come to her home in Quaid-i-Azam Colony near the Dhamial Army Aviation Base at 8:30pm on Feb22, had knocked on the door and asked about the whereabouts of her son Abdul Manan.

Abdul Manan was wanted in a case of stealing motorbikes from the limits of the R.A Bazaar police. She said she told the officers that she had severed all relations with Abdul Manan since 2014.

She said that the police officers in plain clothes had entered her house forcibly and started beating Waseem and Irfan, both of whom were government employees and had taken both men away.

She said her four other sons- Naeem, Naeem, Qasim and Hafiz Aftab- had called Police Rescue 15 when they came home and told them about the incident. She said police officials from the Saddar Berooni police station had come to get her sons so they can register a case.

In her petition, Ms Akhtar said she was worried when her sons did not return till late at night and that she then went to the police station where she met DSP Saddar, Saleem Khattak.

The DSP is reported to have told her that Waseem and Irfan had been killed in an encounter with the police and that if she did not hand over Abdul Manan, her other sons will also be killed.

She said the family then went to the District Headquarters Hospital where they saw the bodies of Waseen, who was a father of five and Irfan, a father of two. She has said that the police took away the two brothers from their home and killed them in a fake encounter.

Ms Akhtar said she took a written complaint to the SHO Saddar Beroni and the CPO for the registration of a murder case but got no response and asked the court to direct the police to register a murder case.

The police have already registered a case against the seven brothers for being in an encounter with the police and accusing them of terrorism. According to the police, when a team reached the brothers’ house, Abdul Manan had opened fire during which SHO Malik Sajid received a bullet in his left leg and Constable Shahzeb was hit in the head.

Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2017