Sahiwal firing: JIT to submit report to CM Punjab today
JIT probing the Sahiwal tragedy will submit its report to CM Punjab Usman Buzdar today (Tuesday).
LAHORE (Dunya News) - The joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Sahiwal tragedy will submit its report today (Tuesday) to Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar.
The JIT headed by Additional IG Syed Ejaz Shah and comprising members of ISI, MI and IB investigating the Sahiwal firing incident in the light of CCTV footages obtained from different tool plazas, evidences collected from the incident site and statements of eye-witnesses.
The JIT will submit its findings to CM Punjab Usman Buzdar today in which the complete details regarding the incident will be told.
On Saturday, Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officials killed four people, including a couple and their teenage daughter in an alleged “encounter” in Sahiwal, triggering a national outcry that prompted the government to take the security officials into custody and order an investigation into the incident.
CTD claimed that the ‘terrorists’ were killed in an intelligence based operation (IBO). Three other terrorists including Shahid Jabar and Abdul Rahman managed to flee during the chase near the toll plaza of Sahiwal.
CTD claimed of confiscating explosives and weapons from the car adding that officers were investigating into the matter as part of the operation in Faisalabad on January 16.
Contrarily, an eye witness has told the media that the deceased were neither equipped with any weapon nor resisted officers whereas three children were also present in the car.
