December 24, 2022

Tessori asks Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) to devise strategy to deal with domestic violence

Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori has asked the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) to come up with a strategy to prevent instances of domestic violence in Karachi along with taking preventive measures against other crimes in society.

The governor urged the CPLC to take measures in this regard on Friday as he visited the CPLC headquarters in Karachi where he was briefed by CPLC chief Zubair Habib on the working of the civil society-based anti-crime agency in the city.

According to a statement, Tessori said that scientific analysis of the crime-related data available with the CPLC would go a long way in combating lawlessness in Karachi. He added that the CPLC had an important role to play to revive the people’s trust in the working of police.

He appreciated the CPLC for its role in resolving high-profile cases of kidnapping for ransom. He was of the view that criminal mafias’ operations should immediately be ended in Karachi and entire country.

He said that irrespective of the fact that the office of the provincial governor was deprived of any authority, he would continue to make efforts to expose the elements responsible for worsening crime situation in the city. He added that he required support from the media in this regard.

Tessori was informed on the occasion that people from all over Pakistan had access to the CPLC’s call centre and the liaison committee helped digitise the record of 8,442,925 motor vehicles and 530,527 jail inmates. The CPLC also provided help in identification of around 7,040 unidentified bodies, the governor was told. The CPLC call centre could be accessed by the citizens to get emergency help for combating any crime situation anywhere in Karachi.

Meanwhile, the governor, while expressing dissatisfaction at the performance of the K-Electric, said that instances of power cuts should not continue in different parts of Karachi during the peak winter season.

Meeting K-Electric Chief Executive Officer Moonis Abdullah Alvi at the Governor House, Tessori asked the power utility to come up with a relief package within one week for its consumers facing hardships due to inflated power bills and frequent electricity failures.

He asked the KE to conduct Khuli Kachehri sessions to listen to the genuine complaints of the power consumers in the city. He told the CEO to take corrective steps to make sure the provision of uninterrupted electric supply to residential and industrial areas of the city and sort out complaints.

Source: The News

December 24, 2022

Death, fine for killer of wife

BAHAWALPUR: Dunyapur Additional District and Sessions Judge Rafaqat Ali Qamar on Friday handed down death sentence along with a fine of Rs200, 000 to a murder convict.

According to the prosecution, convict Aurengzeb had shot dead his wife Sana Bibi and injured mother-in-law Zainab Bibi over a family dispute at village 17-M in the limits of Dunyapur Saddar police station on May 1, 2020.

Meanwhile, Dunyapur police claim to have arrested a suspect on the charge of raping a 15-year old girl.

According to an FIR 905/22 registered under section 376-PPC on the complaint of the victim’s mother, the accused had raped the girl a few days ago.

Source: Dawn

December 24, 2022

Two minor girls raped at workplace

TOBA TEK SINGH: A cotton factory labour contractor allegedly raped two minor worker girls in the factory at Chak 97-RB in Faisalabad.

The complainant stated that she, her daughter and a minor relative worked at the plant. On Dec 20, the suspect brought both girls to a location within the factory and raped them. According to CPO Syed Khalid Mahmood Hamdani, the police conducted a medicolegal test on both girls, however, the suspect was granted temporary bail before being arrested.

Source: Dawn

December 24, 2022

Teenage girl shot dead in Korangi

KARACHI: A teenage girl was shot dead in a Korangi area apparently by armed robbers on Friday, police said.

Quoting the family, the Awami Colony police said three to four unknown robbers tried to enter a house in F Area, Korangi, and during the attempt shot and killed Seharun Nisa Qadeer, 17.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).

Area SHO Syed Farasat Husain said the police had doubts about the family’s version. They told the police that the suspects tried to forcibly enter the house, but when they (family) did not open the gate, the suspects opened fire. A bullet pierced through the neck of the girl who was in the drawing room, they added.

But the victim’s father stated that two suspects came from the roof and killed her, the officer said.

Meanwhile, a young man suffered a bullet wound and died early on Friday morning in Baldia Town, according to rescue services.

Police said that a bullet hit his thigh after he pulled the trigger of his pistol accidentally and died from excessive bleeding. The victim was identified as Haroon Gul, 25, a resident of Mehmoodia Chowk in Raja Tanveer Colony.

Source: Dawn

December 24, 2022

Bail plea of widow of Aamir Liaquat dismissed

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Friday dismissed an application seeking grant of bail to the widow of late politician and anchorperson Aamir Liaquat Hussain in a case pertaining to allegedly leaking his obscene videos on social media.

Dania Shah was booked and arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from her house in Lodhran on Dec 15.

Judicial Magistrate (East) Mukesh Kumar pronounced his order reserved after hearing arguments from the defence and prosecution on the bail plea of Ms Shah, who is currently in judicial custody.

The magistrate observed that the matter was at a premature stage of investigation, since no investigation report under Section 173 of the criminal procedure code had been filed yet.

He noted that while “no sexually explicit videos of the late lawmaker were recovered from the possession of Shah” the prosecutor claimed that all such videos had been deleted from her gadgets by the suspect.

The judge remarked that the material collected during the investigation into the matter so far apparently connected the widow with the commissioning of the alleged offence.

He stated that the suspect prima facie violated the victim’s fundamental rights to dignity, privacy and modesty, which are inalienable rights of every person and as per the complainant’s counsel, the release of Aamir Liaquat’s personal videos in public sphere was the main cause of his death.

Dua Aamir, daughter of the late TV anchor, had lodged an FIR against Dania Shah under Sections 20 (malicious code), 21 (cyberstalking) and 24 (legal recognition of offences committed in relation to information system) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016.

Source: Dawn