KASUR: It took a woman more than six years to get a case registered against officials of Ganda Singh police station who had allegedly shot dead his only son in a fake encounter in 2012.

Police on Thursday entered a case against 11 suspects, two of them unidentified, for allegedly killing an innocent man in a staged encounter for their vested interest.

According to complainant Ghulam Fatima of village Kotli Rai Abu Bakar, on Oct 18, 2012, police officials, including Ganda Singh police in charge Qurban Ali, two sub-inspectors (SIs) Muzaffar Ali and Asghar Ali, two assistant sub inspectors (ASIs) Abbas Ali and Shah Waliullah, four constables -- Idrees, Muhammad Mansha, Inyatullah and Mushtaq Ahmed and two unidentified policemen raided the outhouse of Iftikhar at Sattoki village and picked her son Mushtaq.

On being informed, her sons Zafar and Hameed went to Thai Sheikhum police station where the officials denied having picked Mushtaq.

According to the FIR, the police officials first took Mustaq to Tara Gar police post and then to a place near Baito village.

She alleged that the suspects later two policemen -- Shah Waliullah and Muzaffar opened fire at her son who died on the spot.

Later, on the complaint of ASI Shah Waliullah, Ganda Singh police entered a case mentioning Mushtaq was killed in a police encounter.

On her complaint, Magistrate Shoaib Imran held a judicial inquiry into the case on Dec 17, 2012 and on Jan 28, 2013, he submitted a report to the then district session judge declaring the police officials guilty of killing an innocent man.

The police moved the Lahore High Court against the magistrate’s orders and got a stay order.

Ghulam Fatima told Dawn on phone that the stay order was cancelled and police were ordered to registered a murder case.

Finally, on Thursday, police entered a case against the suspects on the intervention of DPO Zahid Nawaz Marwat without any arrest so far.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2018