ISLAMABAD – The capital police have failed to identify more than 10 dead bodies recovered from various parts of the city during past three months. It was generally suspected that the recovered bodies belong to the people who were murdered outside the limits of capital city’s police stations where they were dumped only to divert attention of investigators,” a police source told Pakistan Today.
The source said most of the bodies had been recovered from areas falling within the precincts of Sihala, Shehzad Town, Bara Kahu, Secretariat, Sabzi Mandi and Ternol police stations. “There are over 300 entry and exit check posts in and around the federal capital, but regrettably personnel posted there remain mainly focused on checking possible terrorist acts, and have miserably failed to check dumping of bodies in the limits of their police stations,” source added.
He said the poor patrolling and sheer negligence were the causes behind the police failure in identifying the dead bodies. Ternol Police Station, he said, recovered the bodies of some taxi drivers who were killed by the snatchers of their cabs, but could not be identified so far, said the source. Similarly the Sabzi Mandi police had also not been able to identify the bodies of the suspected drug addicts. The source said that high-ups of the capital police had so far made no plan to check the dumping of bodies in the limits of city’s police stations and to evolve any workable mechanism to identify the killers or their victims.
It added that the criminals could be easily traced by adopting modern investigation methods like verification of finger prints of the bodies by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).
