arranged a Kalashnikov for him. To a question, Rana Ayyaz said that police had first warned him to surrender but he opened fire and the police had to retaliate.
About the FIR against the Faisal Town SHO under Section 155-C of Police Order, the SSP said that the SHO was found negligent on a number of accounts. The SHO had not verified the identity of the guard who was hired by traders privately. The guard was also a PO in murder cases and the SHO was informed about his nefarious designs through an application but he did not entertain the application. He said Abbas’ brother was also a PO and he was also in police custody.
Meanwhile, the activists of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan condemned the killing of the security guard in an encounter. They said the crime committed by the guard was heinous and highly condemnable but the police had no authority to decide the fate of a criminal in the presence of a judicial system.
Legal experts have termed it a sheer violation of the orders of Lahore High Court against extra-judicial killings. They said that the security guard was not a terrorist. The police should have known the motive behind his extreme step and then he should have been prosecuted under legal system.
The chairman of Judicial Activism Panel, Azhar Sidique, said that a judicial inquiry into the encounter should be conducted by a judge of the Lahore High Court. He said that there is no provision in law for custodial killings. The government could have prosecuted the culprit through speedy trial.
Ansar Burney Trust International chairman Ansar Burney said that judicial inquiry into the incident should be conducted to discourage extra-judicial killings. He said that the act of the security guard was inhuman and brutal but killing him in an encounter was not justified at any cost. He reiterated that he had no sympathy with the accused guard but nobody should be allowed to challenge the judicial system.