KARACHI, June 4: Police on Saturday registered a case against unknown assailants for killing Jamaat-i-Islami leader Aslam Mujahid. Police sources said that the FIR (96/2005) was registered in the back date, May 30, when the killing was carried out. Aslam Mujahid was abducted while he was returning from the funeral of a local leader of the JI who was also killed in an armed attack. Mujahid’s bullet-riddled body was found in the limits of the Korangi Industrial Area police.

The sources said that JI wanted to nominate some Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders in the FIR as accused. However, the police did not oblige the JI and delayed the registration of the case. The FIR was registered, after five days, on behalf of the state against unknown killers.

However, a senior police officer insisted that the FIR had been registered the same day the incident had taken place. “We waited for a complainant till the night of the day the incident took place, and when nobody turned up, we registered the case.”

An official in the Korangi police station said although the FIR of murder had been registered, it did not have mention of abduction as the place of abduction was not clear. “We are investigating the case to find out the exact location of abduction of Aslam Mujahid.”

Meanwhile, an MMA leader and Amir of the JI Karachi, Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui has condemned police for refusing to register the FIR against the nominated accused, PPI adds.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, he said that police had not been registering the FIR against the accused although there were witnesses who had seen the kidnappers of Mujahid.

He contended that showing unknown persons as accused in the FIR tantamount to change the facts of the case and provide protection to the culprits.

He said the provincial government and administration wanted to remove the names of Home Minister Abdul Rauf Siddiqui and SHO Korangi Anwar Jaffery from the FIR.