Karachi (November 13, 2017): Two policemen, alleged of killing a 14-year-old boy in Karachi, were arrested on Monday and booked on charges of murder, while two other Razaq and Police informer Akram Farooqi have escaped and not been arrested yet.
Rehan, 14, was allegedly killed because of police firing in Karachi’s Mominabad area late Sunday.
The law enforcers claimed they raided the vicinity in search of drug peddlers, who opened fire on the police team. They said the boy was killed in firing by the suspects.
But the residents rubbished police claims with eye witnesses saying the duty policemen, whom they said were intoxicated, tortured children in the locality, before firing shots on the orders of the station house officer (SHO).
Superintendent Police (SP) Orangi Abid Baloch took notice of the incident and ordered locking up the four policemen involved in the episode.
A case was also lodged against arrested policemen in Mominabad police station, with father of the deceased child as complainant.
Family of the victim and residents of the locality also protested over the killing outside Mominabad police station.
They, however, dispersed after being assured of fair investigations into the tragic event.
Earlier, DIG Karachi West Zulfiqar suspended the SHO of Mominabad police station over the killing of a boy.
A committee lead by SSP Central Irfan Baloch is also being formed for the transparent investigation of the case, DIG West has said.
Policeman Majid, who opened the fire on little Rehan was suspended for quite sometime, Zulfiqar said.
He also said that investigations about the shooting are still underway.
It may be mentioned here that the residents of Mominabad locality in Karachi’s Orangi Town yesterday surrounded a local police station protesting the alleged killing of a 12-year-old boy by police personnel.
Rehan was allegedly killed by policemen. However, the motive behind the firing incident in which the boy killed, could not be ascertained.
The area residents chanted slogans against the police and demanded stern action against the policemen involved in the grisly incident.
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