Prisoners Abscond

Four under trial terrorist prisoners were taken away forcefully by about a dozen terrorist colleagues of theirs at Karachi city courts in full day light from the police van after killing a policeman and injuring a few others. One of the prisoners was killed later by the police firing who had cordoned off the nearby busy streets where the terrorists had taken refuge. What is not understood is if the prisoners were properly hand cuffed as per Police Rules – each prisoner cuffed at both wrists and the individual chains of all four made to pass through one another in a lace-loop method, with the final end of the chain secured through the belt of the police escort, how could the four run together tied to each other as one body and on the top of it with their handcuffs and chains and then mingle too with crowd in a busy street during full day light.?!! Just unbelievable! A case of sheer gross negligence and lax discipline.

Someone in the police department is responsible for the death of the constable died in vain.

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)