Karachi March 1 (TNS): An inquiry committee that probed the Intizar murder case on Thursday submitted an interim charge-sheet in the court, which said that Intizar died after he was hit by a shot fired by police cop, Bilal.
The inquiry report also implicated policeman Danyal in the firing incident while clearing another cop Abbas Shah.
The inquiry report also said that Madiha Kayani, who was accompanying the late Intizar in his vehicle, sped off in a rickshaw in a state of shock after Intizar was hit by a fire shot and informed their combined friend Sulaiman about the incident later. The inquiry also exonerated Mahrukh, who happened to be Intizar’s class fellow and friend, and another person, Sohail Hameed.
The interim report also said that the victim and the police cop, who had opened, had no personal enmity.
Earlier, Madiha Kayani — the main key witness in the 19-year-old Intizar Murder case — had said in a video claiming unknown persons were hurling life threats at her, asking her to back out from testifying before investigators or face dire consequences.
Intizar was killed by two personnel of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell in the DHA area of Karachi on January 13 after his car was intercepted by two cars and two motorcycle riders, who opened fire at him from behind and killed him on the spot.
According to Madiha, Intizar had told her that he was getting threats from one, Sohail Hameed, whose nephew Mahrukh was Intizar’s class fellow and they were friends. Madiha said that the investigation team dropped some of her statements when it submitted its report to the police high-ups. “Intizar was killed under a planning. My earlier statement in the murder case was distorted and some portions of the statement have been dropped. My life is under threat. I request the Rangers to provide me protection,” Madiha could be heard saying in the video.
The victim’s father, Ishtiaq Ahmed, who could be seen with Madiha in the video, demanded that Sohail Hameed, Mahrukh’s uncle, had threatened him of dire consequences if his late son did not sever relations with his daughter. He had demanded that police officer, Aamir Hameed, the brother of Sohail Hameed, should also be included for investigation in the murder case.
