Quetta : A judicial tribunal has ordered the inspectors-general of the Frontier Corps and Balochistan police to suspend all personnel involved in the killing of five Chechens from active duty.
In a session on Saturday, the tribunal, headed by Justice Mohammad Hashim Kakar of the Balochistan High Court (BHC), also barred them from transferring any official involved in the incident until the conclusion of the inquiry.
The orders were issued following growing questions regarding the uninterrupted service of the FC and police personnel involved in the incident, which many are terming an extrajudicial killing.
Five Chechens, who law-enforcers say they suspected of being terrorists, were gunned down by FC and police personnel in broad daylight.
It later transpired that not only were the five suspects unarmed, but, according to eyewitnesses, they were also willing to surrender.
A judicial probe was later ordered into the incident.
Interestingly, the Superintendent of Police, Naveed Atif, who was SP Airport Circle at the time of the Kharotabad incident, and in whose jurisdiction the incident occurred, was promoted to BPS-18. The police also intended to “transfer” DSP Airport police station Arbab Asif, but the police were stopped just in time by the authorities concerned.
There is also no report regarding the transfer of the SP after the tribunal directive.
