MIRPURKHAS: The Sindh government has transferred Jhuddo DSP Sujaan Singh with immediate effect over his failure to discharge duty during the ignominious incident of abduction and gang-rape of two women in broad daylight within the jurisdiction of Naukot police station on Feb 8.
The decision was taken on Friday in the light of a report of Sindh chief minister’s fact-finding committee issued a couple of days back.
The report revealed that former in-charge of Nafees Nagar police post, Gulzar Tungri, along with three policemen, was present near the crime scene and he could have stopped it but he did not intervene.
Police moved into action only after the victims’ family and relatives blocked the Mirpurkhas-Naukot road after passage of 24 hours to the abduction, said the report.
It said that the suspects handed over the abductees to police after keeping them in detention and subjecting them to gang-rape for 24 hours.
Case moved to ATC In a related development on Friday, the court of civil judge and judicial magistrate-II of Digri ordered transfer of the abduction and gang-rape case to the Mirurkhas Anti-Terrorism Court.
The court passed the order after Investigation Officer Qadir Bux Behrani and the victims’ lawyers Ghulam Nabi Mewo and Afzal Virk requested the judge to transfer the case to ATC since the FIR contained allegations pertaining to Section 6/7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Police have already arrested all the 35 accused in two cases, one pertaining to abduction and gang-rape of the two women and the other about firing on police and offering resistance during police raid.
Published in Dawn, February 19th, 2022
