The top cops of Lahore Police have secretly reopened an inquiry into a sex scandal that had surfaced after a lady constable claimed that senior police officials were running a sex racket while exploiting the policewomen, Pakistan Today learnt on Friday.
A lady constable, Nadra, who then worked in the Qilla Gujjar Singh Police Lines, had complained to the city’s top cops a couple of months ago that her seniors including an ASI Liaquat Ali and lady moharrars Ghazala and Haleema exhorted her to enter into a sexual liaison with the then SP Headquarters Rao Munir.
Later during the initial inquiry she also claimed that ASI Liaquat Ali threatened her with dire consequences and tried to defame her when she refused to yield to their pressure.
The earlier inquiry was conducted by the then SP Security who found ASI Liaquat and lady constables Ghazala and Haleema guilty of the wrongdoing. The SP Security had ordered the dismissal of ASI Liaquat and while lady moharrars Haleema and Ghazala were only issued warning. But the punishment for ASI Liaquat was reduced to his transfer to Model Town Police Station as Moharar. Later, however, the then SP Model Town Dr Haider Ashraf dismissed him from his services for his professional negligence.
Well-placed sources said that during the first inquiry, the names of the superintendent police involved in the scandal were removed from the documents at the behest of the top cops.
On Friday, sources told this scribe that the inquiry has been reopened but senior police officials were not available to confirm the new development.