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6 ACLC Officials Arrested After Youth Shot Dead in Karachi

Karachi (January 14, 2018): At least six members of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) in Karachi have been taken into custody for allegedly shooting and killing a young man in Defence Housing Authority on Saturday night, police said.

According to Senior Superintendent Police ACLC Muqaddas Haider, the officials had asked Intizar Ahmed, 19, to stop his car. “When he didn’t stop the car, they opened fire on the vehicle,” the SP said. Ahmed died of multiple gunshot wounds on the spot.

However, officials had earlier claimed that armed assailants on a motorcycle had attacked Intizar’s car in the Khayaban-i-Ittehad area.

The SP said that six ACLC officials have so far been taken into custody following the incident.

Earlier in the day, the victim’s parents, accompanied by their lawyer Muhammad Asif Khudai, addressed a press conference in Karachi and demanded justice for Intizar.Intizar, who had been studying in Malaysia, had returned to Karachi in November. “He had no political ties,” the family and their counsel told the media, adding that he had visited his friends prior to the accident.

Intizar’s father, Ishtiaq Ahmed, said that the car was registered in his son’s name.

Khudai dismissed media reports that a female had been in the car with Intizar. “To our knowledge, there was no girl with him, and no such woman or girl has contacted us.”

He added that he had not been informed by police of any ACLC personnel being arrested and got to know about the arrests through media.Ishtiaq and his counsel denied that alcohol, government licence plates and flags of political parties had been recovered from the victim’s car.

Meanwhile, CIA DIG Saqib Ismail Memon suspended all nine police officers of ACLC with immediate effect, pending inquiry into their conduct.

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah took notice of the press conference and summoned the additional inspector general, deputy inspector general South and others to CM House, according to a statement issued by CM House.