Cops issued show-cause notices over ‘negligence’

NOWSHERA: The Islamabad police issued show-cause notices to the cops from whose custody the outlaws had freed their accomplices in Chungi Chowk in Nowshera a few days back.

It was learnt that the Islamabad Police cops, including Assistant Sub-inspector Nawaz Khan and Ghulam Yasir were taking a prisoner, Asif, who was wanted by the Islamabad and Punjab police from Nowshera district jail to Islamabad when outlaws intercepted their vehicle and took away the accused at gunpoint.

District Police Officer (DPO) Qasim Ali Khan had alleged that the Islamabad Police had shown negligence in shifting the accused to the federal capital.

He had alleged that the Islamabad Police used a private car instead of an official vehicle, claiming that security was not sought from the local police.

The Islamabad Police, on the other hand, had rejected the allegations of the Nowshera Police.

Cop Nawaz said when the Islamabad policemen were completing the formalities at the district courts they noticed that some accomplices of the accused were lurking about there.

The Islamabad police issued show-cause notices to ASI Nawaz Khan and cop Ghulam Yasir and had started high level probe into the incident.

Crime Investigation Agency, official, whose name could not be ascertained, said that ASI Nawaz Khan and Sub-Inspector Hanif Kamal mentioned in their report that they had fulfilled all the legal formalities to take the accused, Asif, to Islamabad. :

He said that Nawaz and Hanif Kamal said in the report that they had repeatedly called to the office of Senior Superintendent of Police Sanaullah Khan to provide them security but they were told to come to the office so that the cops could accompany them for security.

“The cops of Islamabad sought help from the Nowshera Police which asked us to come to the police station,” Nawaz said, adding, the incident happened at a distance of 100 yards from the police station.

The cop said the CDR data bore witness that they requested the Nowshera police for help. “But we were not extended any help,” he added.

He said that according to the report that three outlaws, traveling in a car, intercepted them at the Nowshera-Mardan Bridge.

The cops had also alleged in their reports that the traffic wardens who were present there did not help them, the CIA official added.