Inquiry committee set up to probe death of PTI worker

An inquiry committee has been fashioned to research the dying of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf employee Ali Bilal, whom the get together claims was murdered by the hands of the police.

A conflict between PTI staff and Lahore police came about at Zaman Park a day earlier during which a employee died and different get together staff and law enforcement officials have been injured. PTI leaders declare that the administration is accountable for his or her get together employee’s life.

The Punjab residence division had imposed part 144 in Lahore resulting from critical safety threats. The clashes occurred whereas police tried to disrupt the gathering of the PTI staff at PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s residence Zaman Park.

Reacting to the demise of Ali Bilal, Imran Khan had written on his official Twitter deal with, asking all PTI representatives throughout the nation to supply funeral prayers in absentia in the present day (Thursday).

Deputy Inspector Common (DIG) Elite Drive Sadiq Ali and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Imran Kashore are a part of the committee, the police mentioned.

The inquiry committee will be aware down the statements of the witnesses and the committee will submit its report back to the Punjab inspector-general of police in three days, added the police.

Earlier, the Providers Hospital administration had advised Geo Information that the PTI employee didn’t die resulting from a head harm.

‘Will go to court docket if FIR not registered’

In the meantime, an software was filed Thursday evening on the Race Course police station to register a case over the dying of Bilal. In accordance with the police, Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi and Inside Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan have been nominated within the software.

The police mentioned that Lahore CCPO Bilal Kamyana and sub-inspector Rehan have additionally been nominated. It was filed on the criticism of the deceased PTI employee’s father Liaquat Ali.

Former prime minister Imran Khan’s nephew, lawyer Hassaan Khan Niazi, who’s representing the deceased employee’s father, confirmed the submission of the appliance throughout a chat with the media on the police station.

He mentioned that the difficulty will likely be taken to court docket if an FIR will not be registered.

Closed-circuit tv (CCTV) digicam footage got here to the fore of the hospital has forged doubt on the allegation.

It may be seen within the footage that two folks introduced the employee’s physique to the hospital in a black 4×4 and took him to the hospital’s emergency on a stretcher. After examination, the physician verified the employee’s dying.

It will also be considered that the opposite two folks accompanying the physique left because the physician verified the PTI employee useless. The photographs have additionally come to the fore of those that introduced Bilal to the hospital.

PTI employee not killed in custody: CM

The Punjab caretaker CM, in the meantime, had additionally taken discover of the dying of Bilal and claimed that he was not killed in police custody.

In accordance with a spokesperson for the federal government, the CM had ordered an investigation into the incident and introduced all these books chargeable for the episode. He had mentioned the movies posted by Imran Khan have been outdated and made in the course of the PTI ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ when the deceased was arrested by the police.

Naqvi mentioned that secure metropolis cameras had captured a personal automobile bringing Ali Bilal to a hospital and {that a} seek for the automobile and people sitting in it was underway. He mentioned that the matter might solely be concluded after a autopsy and the secure metropolis report have been obtained. 

In accordance with CCTV footage, two folks got here out of the automobile and took the PTI employee to the hospital’s emergency space on a stretcher. Footage of the 2 individuals who took Bilal to the hospital have additionally come to the fore, Geo Information reported.

The caretaker CM mentioned that 11 police officers together with two DSPs and an SHO have been injured in the course of the day’s occasions and claimed that the PTI staff had come armed with sticks and stones. He mentioned DSPs of Sabzazar and Township, and SHO Hanjarwal, constables Irfan, Nadeem, Bilal, Waqar, Abdul Sattar, Ali Ismat, Sikandar, and Ali Hamza have been among the many injured personnel.