Cops accused of killing two motorcyclists remanded

Karachi
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday sentenced five policemen, accused of killing two motorcyclists on May 17, to a week-long physical remand.
Expected to be produced before the court a day earlier, the investigation officer (IO) had instead submitted copies of the registered case with the court.
Two head constables, Sarfaraz and Nadeem and three constables, Sher Khan, Madad Khan and Faizan, were accused of gunning down 22-year-old Mohammad Ali and Danish, 20, after they allegedly failed to stop at a checkpoint in Bahadurabad.
According to Bashir Khan, father of Ali, friends of his son informed him that policemen had shot at and killed Ali and his friend while they were on their motorbike.
Following the incident, SSP East Pir Mohammad Shah had said that the patrol unit had received information that the men were involved in looting commuters in the area; he, later ordered arrest of the policemen.
The accused claimed that the victims, along with four other persons on three bikes, had refused to stop at a police checkpoint near the Tipu Sultan signal after which they opened fire.