Karachi, Jan. 19 (TNS): SSP Malir Rao Anwar appeared before a departmental inquiry committee on Friday in relation to the controversial killing of Naqeebullah in a police encounter.
Appearing before the committee on Friday, SSP Rao submitted the deceased suspect’s criminal record to the investigators and recorded his statement.
He said a kidnapping for ransom case against Naqeebullah, registered in 2014, has been discovered.
Later in the day, the probe committee officials visited the site of police encounter in Shah Lateef Town.
During the visit, the committee members gathered evidence from the site of incident.
SSP Anwar had claimed to have shot dead four alleged terrorists in a police encounter at Shah Latif Town.
Later, it was revealed that the deceased ‘terrorists’ included Naseemullah alias Naqeebullah, a 27-year-old from South Waziristan. His family claimed he disappeared on January 3 from Sohrab Goth and was then killed in a fake encounter.
Following a hue and cry on social media and by relatives of the Waziristan native, an inquiry committee was formed under the chair of Counter Terrorism Department Additional IG Sanaullah Abbasi.
