RAWALPINDI: The son of a retired judge escaped from police custody and died after jumping from the rooftop of a house in Morgah on Sunday night, police said.

The former justice of the Lahore High Court had filed a complaint with the Morgah police against his son Omer Khattab, 42, over a family dispute and asked the police to take him away.

In response to the complaint, the police picked Omer from his house on Sunday night. The police said while Omer was being taken to the Morgah police station in a police van, he jumped out of the vehicle and ran away.

As the police started a chase, Omer entered a house and jumped onto the street from its rooftop and suffered fatal injuries.

He was shifted to the Fauji Foundation Hospital where he was pronounced dead, said the police.

“A report on the incident has been registered with the police. The victim’s parents did not want a postmortem or registration of a case saying it was their family matter,” a police official said.

A report has been registered in the daily diary of the police and the body handed over to the family, he said.

Published in Dawn, September 5th, 2017