Five Rangers men arrested for probe

Aftab Ahmed death case

KARACHI: Five personnel of the paramilitary Rangers force were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the death of Aftab Ahmed – the late coordinator of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Farooq Sattar – who was in the custody of the law enforcement agency. 

Sources in Sindh Rangers told Geo News that the incident of Aftab Ahmed’s death was regrettable which will be thoroughly investigated.

They said the five Rangers officials were arrested after an initial investigation against them and added that the officials’ physical remand will
also be taken if deemed necessary.

The Rangers sources said that the code of conduct was badly violated in the custodial death of Aftab Ahmed. 

The development comes after the orders of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif to investigate the unfortunate incident.

The probe was immediately kicked off after suspending the suspected Rangers officials in the wake of the army chief’s orders. 

Ahmed had died the second day after the paramilitary force, which enjoys special policing powers of taking suspects into a 90-day custody without arrest warrants in Karachi, remanded him into its custody.

Ahmed was arrested by the Rangers three days before his death earlier this month. 

A Karachi court had handed over his custody to the paramilitary force for questioning.

His postmortem report revealed that approximately 35 to 40 percent of the body surface was found congested due to multiple bruises.