Police killed two more proclaimed offenders in a staged encounter in the Misri Shah Police Station precincts on Monday. According to details, the proclaimed offenders were involved in murder, robbery and other heinous crimes and police recovered a 9MM pistol, a 30-bore pistol and five bullets from their possession. According to the Misri Shah Police, the two accused were identified as Amin alias Meena, a resident of Raja-Jang, Kasur and Adil, a resident of Ittehad Colony, Ghalib Market, Lahore. Police said that the accused snatched a motorcycle of citizen Safdar Iqbal bearing registration number LRK-8613 and fled.
Following a Rescue 15 call by Safdar, the Misri Shah Police reached the spot and started chasing the accused. The police team, led by the SHO Misri Shah, intercepted a bike on Victoria Road but its rider did not stop and opened indiscriminate fire at police. Police retaliated during which both of them were killed. Police removed the bodies to the morgue for autopsy and registered a case number 512/11 under Section 324/353/186 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). Police claimed that the accused were escaping towards Pul Porian after snatching the motorcycle from the Coop Store. According to police, both the accused were wanted in heinous crimes and Amin alias Meena managed to escape from police custody at a sessions court in 2010.
According to police, the two proclaimed offenders were in police custody and killed in a staged encounter. But the Lahore capital city police officer (CCPO), instead of denying that the two were killed in a staged encounter, claimed that the accused were hardened criminals and had killed a number of people, including a lawyer. Lahore Police have now adopted a new pattern to kill accused criminals in staged encounters by letting them run on motorcycles to depict the encounters as real.
Around 12 days ago, the CIA Kotwali Police had killed two alleged kidnappers in an encounter on May 18 in the Misri Shah Police Station precincts after around 18 hours of the CCPO’s briefing in which he clearly mentioned that police will not spare criminals any more and retaliate if anyone attacks law enforcement agencies. The deceased, identified as Javed alias Pandi, 25, son of Bashir Ahmed of Shahdara and Ramzan, 24, son of Muhammad Bashir, were wanted by police in murder and abduction cases. Similarly a few days ago, two people were killed near Lakho Der in the Baghbanpura Police Station precincts on the same pattern. Since Malik Ahmed Raza Tahir assumed charge as Lahore CCPO, around six accused have been killed in police encounters. In the three police encounters, not a single policemen was injured, which shows that Lahore Police have become experts in shooting down criminals in encounters.