Ex-colonel, son beat up musician’s family

North Cantonment Police on Friday registered a case against a retried colonel, his son, wife and their two unidentified accomplices for allegedly torturing and abusing a woman and her son over allegations of stealing more than Rs 10,000.
According to FIR no 878/2011 registered with North Cantonment police, a woman, Asma Suhail, wife of musician Suhail Javed, was on way to market in her car along with her son Ammar Suhail. Some distance away from her home, three unidentified motorcyclist hit her car from behind. Asma said she reprimanded the men for damaging her car, but they started abusing her.
Asma’s son then came out of the car and asked the men to behave. Upon this, the motorcyclists badly beat up Ammar and according to Asma, they also took away Rs 10,000 which fell from Asma’s bag during the scuffle.
Per the FIR, the Askari 10 administration called Asma, her husband Suhail and son Ammar for reconciling with the other party.
When they got to the administration office, Colonel (r) Nadeem Khan, his wife and son and two unidentified men arrived there and started subjecting Suhail to severe torture, while Nadeem’s wife tortured and hurled abuses at Suhail’s wife. Police registered a complaint on Asma’s complaint under sections 427/506/379/354 of Pakistan Penal Code. Cantonment Division SP Operations Hashmat Kamal said the incident was purely a result of a “scuffle between children”.
Cantonment SP Investigation Syed Ameen Bukhari said they had started probing into the matter but no arrest had been made so far.
Col (r) Nadeem, however, had a different version. In a written statement to the media, he said his 15-year-old son Zaryab Khan and his friends were on way to a friend’s house on a motorcycle on July 27 in Askari-10 when a car driven by Asma braked abruptly in font of the boys’ motorbike.
As a result, the light of the vehicle was damaged slightly.
Nadeem said Suhail Javed arrived at the scene and badly beat up his son.
The retired colonel said Suhail had also misbehaved with his wife over telephone and threatened her of dire consequences, teeling he had contacts in the Hizbul Tehrir, which scared even the most influential of men.
Nadeem said the management of Askari-10 summoned Suhail the next day after his wife lodged a complaint. He confessed that he had slapped Suhail when he again hurled abuses at him and his family and brought up Hizbul Tehrir.
The retired colonel claimed that the news published in a section of press had been influentially placed by Suhail.