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GUJRANWALA, Feb 2: District and Sessions Judge Mazhar Husain Minhas has taken exception to the police indifference for not taking any interest in getting the cases pending with courts disposed of.
“Courts are burdened with a backlog of criminal cases, but the police don’t produce the accused or relevant record in time,” the judge said at the Justice Criminal and Coordination Committee meeting here on Thursday.
He asked the police officials to mend their ways and produce the accused and record before courts on hearing. He regretted that the SHOs sent their subordinates to courts, who complicated cases. He asked the district police chief to take punitive action against the inefficient and corrupt police officials.
Mr Minhas also directed the district jail authorities to provide facilities to women captives and their children in accordance with the jail manual.
DPO Dr Arif Mushtaq assured the participants that inefficient police officials would be taken to task and in future the courts would be timely furnished with record.
District Jail Superintendent Shaukat Feroze, investigation SP Maqbool Ahmad and other government functionaries were present.
PLEA REJECTED: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 rejected on Thursday the police plea for absolving five accused of murder, and summoned them on the next hearing on Feb 16.
Reports said the Civil Lines police booked Ghulam Rasool, Akhlaq, Altaf, Illyas and Tanvirul Hassan on the charge of killing a man and injuring five others of Madina Syedan in Gujrat district courts on March 20 last year. The police, however, declared them innocent after investigation.
The judge, Mujahid Mustaqim, directed the police to produce them on Feb 16.
Couple shot dead: A couple was shot dead on resistance by armed bandits during a dacoity in Chanwali Gharbi village here on Thursday.
Reports said that two armed men entered the house of lumberdar Haji Muhammad Ashraf and held the inmates hostage. The intruders collected 25 tolas of gold and Rs50,000 in cash. For offering resistance, the dacoits opened fire on Ashraf and his wife Razia alias Jia Bibi, killing them on the spot. Later, they escaped from the scene.
Aimanabad police have registered a case and are investigating.
BUSTED: Model Town police on Thursday claimed to have busted a gang of bandits and recovered from them looted goods within half-an-hour after the robbery on GT Road.
According to reports, armed robbers deprived expatriate Riaz of his important documents, a cell phone and Rs50,000 in cash. On receiving information, a police party, led by SHO Tahir Farooq Cheema, chased the accused and arrested them near Dinga railway crossing when they were fleeing by a rented motorcycle. Police recovered from them cash, documents, cell phone and the motorcycle. The arrested accused were identified as Babar and Rashid of Shaheenabad locality.
DPO Dr Arif Mushtaq announced cash prizes and commendation certificates for the raiding party.
