Sarfaraz Shah, the 18-year-old young man shot dead by a Rangers sepoy in broad daylight on Wednesday, was laid to rest on Thursday in the Paposhnagar graveyard. But while the family waited outside the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) to retrieve the body, Clifton Town Police Officer (TPO) Tariq Dharejo was busy ensuring that the Shah was described as a “robber” in all documents prepared by the police – ostensibly to cover the backs of the officials involved in the killing.
Shah’s body had been taken to the JPMC for post-mortem procedures, but various excuses were provided to the family of the deceased as TPO Dharejo had called with express instructions not to release the body to the heirs till he was mentioned as a robber in all paperwork drawn up in the case. In fact, one source claimed that the post-mortem report listed the boy’s profession as a “robber.”
The Rangers and police had been claiming that Shah had been toting a toy gun at a family member of an unnamed police officer; in fact, this is the same officer who shoved Shah into the arms of the Rangers sepoys. This toy gun has been recovered, claimed a police official.
Dharejo eventually got his way: a total of three first information reports (FIRs) have been lodged at the Boat Basin Police Station. Two of the FIRs, No 225 and No 226, have been filed naming Sarfaraz Shah as a robber. A third FIR was filed against two Rangers personnel, Afzal and Shahid Zafar. TPO Dharejo claimed that five Rangers sepoys had been arrested; he added, however, that legal action cannot be initiated against them till they are court-martialled as they are paramilitary security officials.
Better sense prevailed in the Chief Minister’s (CM) House, however, as CM Qaim Ali Shah ordered an inquiry and suspended a senior police official for posthumously charging the youngster with robbery.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people, including senior journalists and different local leaders of political parties, attended Shah’s funeral prayers that were offered in Hijrat Colony. Moving scenes were witnessed inside the victim’s residence, with female relatives desperately trying to pacify the family – albeit unsuccessfully.
The rangers who committed this heinous crime should be flogged and made a terrible example of, as a lesson to would-be crime doers. There shouldn’t be any relenting this time, matters have progressed far beyond the realm of sanity. To not take action against such a crime is tantamount to abetting it.
he should b referd to court!
go to hell
rangers
oh just shut up bilal
this is very bad man all these members of rangers force involved in the killing should be punished very well , killing a innocent person is very very wrong
yap it's wrong but if we don't know real story then we must sht r months close…..
agar wo robber tha tou or jo bare bare robber hn unhe b goli maro jo pakistan ko lout rahe hain
robbers ke sath yahi hona chahie>>>>>>jub ye log chori kerte he to us waqt in ko khial nahi ata ke hum ghalat ker rahe he>>>>wese hazaro log mqm ki firing se halaq hote he us waqt koi kuch nahi bolta >>.abi ranger ne 1 bunda mar dia he to hamare politicions kese kutto ki tarha bhonk rahe hen
ager hazaro log MQM ki firing se mar rrahey hia to app paida bhi to hohe wikki usi MQM ki ek drop ki firing se 😀 sara credit MQM ko dyte ho ab apne gher k masle bhi MQM pe he daldo
Assalamu Alaykum, It is extremely painful to watch the video and killing an unarmed boy. May Allah forgive his sins, grant him jannah, and grant Sabr Jameel to the family. It is not up to law enforcement to met out justice. This is up to court and judge to decide punishment if he was indeed a criminal. Otherwise,there is no need to have court, judge, and jail.
The rangers who have mercilessly shot dead Sarfaraz deserve nothing less than death penalty.They have no right to kill a person pleading for his life even if he is a robber.It is a clear case of infringement of basic human rights of a person.Even when he was struggling between life and death they cared little for him , he was left to die and these rangers were there itself until he died. I hope this case is fast tracked and the accused be "hanged till death" as early as possible.There will be no one to sympathize with this kind of gruesome murder.
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