‘Missing’ person injured in Karachi police encounter

KARACHI: A ‘missing’ person was injured in an encounter by police, The News learnt on Saturday.
According to the contents of a missing complaint (a copy available with The News) lodged by Noman Siddiqi, resident of Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Johar submitted in area police station, Shara-e-Faisal, that his brother Kamran Siddiqui, president of Faraz View Apartments Residential Society Union and a small scale businessman, was allegedly abducted by three to four plain clothes persons on November 9, 2017.
On late night of November 18, 2017, according to the claim of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Police an encounter took place in the area in which two motorcyclists opened fire at a police team, and in an exchange of fire both Kamran Siddiqui and Aqib Baloch received injuries and were subsequently arrested.
Both the accused were earlier brought to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Aqib Baloch after first aid was given into police custody, while Kamran Siddiqui was shifted to trauma centre of Civil Hospital due to his critical condition.
Noman Siddiqui told The News that his brother and some other office-bearers of residential union and he had a dispute with some alleged criminals and drug peddlers of the area against whom they had lodged a criminal case at Shara-e-Faisal Police Station but despite the passage of two months nothing was done.
Kamran Sidddiqui told The News that the police on the behest of the criminal elements, against whom he and his associates had lodged an FIR, allegedly took him in illegal custody on November 9, 2017, kept him in detention, tortured him and after ten days injured him in a fake encounter.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) East, Karachi Samiullah Soomro refuted all allegations of injured accused and his brother and said that he was aware about the said encounter but neither Kamran or any other person was illegally picked up by the police nor he was kept in illegal detonation and tortured.
However, on a complaint of relatives of one of the injured accused, he has already ordered SP Gulshan for impartial inquiry of the matter and soon all the facts will be known, he added.