Death in ‘encounter’: Woman alleges police harassment for moving Jhang court

TOBA TEK SINGH: The widow of a man who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Jhang says the police are harassing her for moving the court, seeking registration of a murder case against the policemen, including a sub-inspector, involved in the incident.

Zeba Bibi told the reporters on Sunday that in her petition before the Jhang magistrate Kamran Khalid she said Satellite police sub-inspector Amanullah Qamar along with other policemen arrested her husband, Ghulam Jaffar, when he was taking a bath at his tube well at village Bela Bangash. She alleged that her rivals also accompanied the police. Later, her husband was shot dead in the fake encounter, she alleged and added that to restrain her from pursuing the petition, the police were raiding her house continuously to harass her.

Sub-Inspector Amanullah Qamar termed the allegations against him baseless. He added a judicial inquiry into the incident was in progress and he would record his statement before the inquiry officer.

Source: Dawn