The Islamabad ‘encounter’ that killed two people involved in the F9 rape case seems to have taken a new turn after the registration of the FIR.
The FIR, registered in Golra Police Station, with police as the complainenat claims that the men were killed by gun fire from their own accomplices.
It says that four men approached the police checkpoint on two motorcycles. Upon being asked to stop the men opened fire using ‘pistols and klashinkovs’, the police responded with gunfire as well.
In the scuffle, two men fell off their bike and were caught up in the fire coming from their accomplices. These two men were taken into custody in an injured state, along with ammunition. They were later found to be the same people involved in the F9 Park rape case.
It is unclear what happened to the other two men.
Meanwhile, two videos of the families of the men killed in the alleged encounter have also surfaced on social media, giving a new turn to the case.
In one of the videos, the wife of one of the men killed says he was picked up from home the night of the incident and killed. The man, named Nawab, is from Swabi and the father of three children.
In the second video, the mother of the second man, Iqbal, says that her son was picked up from home as well. She says she even asked the policemen why her son was being arrested but received no answer.
Advocate Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and rights activist Dr Farzana Bari have demanded an inquiry into the suspects’ killing.
“I can say with 100 per cent surety that the two suspects who were arrested were in police custody on Feb 15 in the CIA’s police station in I-9,” Mazari, who is representing the victim of the F-9 park rape case, said in a press conference.
“The police had a strange reaction even though both the suspects were in their custody. They first tweeted that they had traced the suspects. Then they deleted that tweet. Then they said they are close to arresting them. And then they issued a fake encounter story which is 100pc a lie and is baseless. They (the suspects) were in custody and were killed in custody.”
“The main purpose of today’s press conference was to expose the culture of extrajudicial killings,” rights activist Dr Farzana Bari. “There is a judicial process. Be it a terrorist or a hard core criminal. Their crime should be established in the court of law.”
