FAISALABAD: The relatives of two suspects killed Saturday night while in police custody claimed the deceased were killed in a fake encounter.
The relatives on Sunday blocked a main road of the city, leading to a suspension of traffic, and demanded justice and the handing over of the deceased’s bodies.
On Saturday, two Dolphin Force constables were injured in Faisalabad’s Gulistan Colony after they attempted to stop four people riding two motorcycles.
Police officials said the suspects did not stop when they were signaled to by the Dolphin Force officials and instead opened fire. Police managed to arrest two of the accused, Shehroz and Mohsin Ali, from the site while the other two fled from the site of the incident.
Later, after a case was registered at the Sargodha Road Police Station, police officials had claimed they were transporting the two suspects on a recovery operation when the suspects’ accomplices attacked the police convoy in an attempt to free their partners.
The incident resulted in an exchange of fire in which the under custody suspects were killed from firing by their own colleagues, police officials claimed.
The families of the deceased suspects have claimed the police killed them in a fake encounter and that no criminal cases were registered against the deceased.