Contempt of court case: SHC indictments IG Sindh, other officials

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KARACHI: The Sindh Court has indictment Inspector General of Police Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali and other police officials.

The hearing was held by Justice Ahmed Ali M. Sheikh and Justice Farooq Shah during which IG Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali was also present.

The court in its short verdict indictment IG and other officers involved in the case.

It is pertinent to mention here that, The contempt proceedings were initiated against IG Jamali, Karachi AIG Ghulam Qadir Thebo, West DIG Feroze Shah, City SSP Fida Hussain Janwari, Saddar SP Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqui, SSU incharge Major (retd) Saleem, Legal AIG Faisal Bashir Memon, former SP Raees Abdul Ghani, West Headquarters SP Tahir Noorani, South DIG Dr Jamil Ahmed and SI Jahangir Mahar.

The case against the IG and other officers was filed by former home minister Zulfiqar Mirza against the officers involved in besieging the court’s building and torturing his supporters and the media persons on May 23.

That day, masked and armed policemen had laid a siege around the SHC. The cops had brutally beaten up the guards providing security to Mirza and media persons at the main gate of the SHC building.

The policemen had also smashed several parked vehicles and snatched cameras from journalists.