KARACHI: At least 10 hours elapsed in a dispute over the jurisdiction of three police stations following the killing of a youth here in metropolis, Geo News reported Tuesday.
However, after the news regarding the row between police stations aired on Geo News, the higher authorities broke the ice and administered to resolve the issue.
According to police sources, a Korangi-area-resident, Shahab Uddin (26) was shot dead in Bahaddurabad locality on Monday evening, after which the dead body had been shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
But a dispute of jurisdictions of police stations came to notice when the officials from three stations, New Town, Ferozabad and Bahaddurabad locked their horns, forcing the others to take responsibility of legal correspondence of the murder.
According to hospital sources, the Medico Legal Officer (MLO) Dr Saleem lodged complaint with the Police Control, requesting the concerned DIG to intervene into the matter.
But unless, Pakistan’s best television news channel, Geo News, intervened and broadcast the news, the dispute was not to seemingly resolve as the DIG later discovered that it was Bahaddurabad police station, within the limits of which, the murder had taken place.
Subsequently, the medico legal certificate was handed over to Bahaddurabad police station after postmortem of the body.
