A motorcyclist was shot dead by the police near Millennium Mall in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Johar area after he opened fire at the police trying to stop him, claimed the police on Tuesday.

According to the police, Shaheen Force officials spotted the motorcyclists and tried to stop them but the youth on the motorcycle did not stop and fired at the police while escaping.

“The police opened fire after the biker shot at them,” the police official claimed, adding that as a result one of the bikers, identified as Amir, was killed, whose criminal record was being checked, while the other managed to escape.

The police also claimed that the shells of the bullets fired by the accused had been found. “We are trying to identify the alleged accused with the help of the Talaash app,” the police added.

SSP East said that he did not know that the slain youth’s father was an employee in the Excise and Taxation department, adding that the matter would be fully investigated.

The slain youth’s mother told the reporters that he was innocent and would work with his brother at Karachi’s Fishery.

Eyewitnesses said that the police killed an innocent person and that he had no weapon with him. Four police personnel, they added, gunned down Amir on the staircase in front of them, and then fled.

Meanwhile, the DIG East said that both the police personnel involved in the firing incident had been arrested, adding that in the initial investigation, the personnel have been found guilty.

He said that both police personnel had committed a murder and a murder case against them would be registered after contacting the deceased’s family.