THIS refers to the Zainab murder case. I am appalled to note that even rubbish and hearsay are passing on as evidence.
It is highly improper for anyone in authority to order the police to catch the culprit within any given limited time. We know the character of the police. If they cannot discover and identify the culprit within the given time, they catch hold of a poor innocent person who has bad reputation and implicate him and claim success in catching the culprit within the time given to them.
The most glaring example was that of Hakeem Saeed`s murder. There was great pressure on the police to arrest the culprits. As such, the police made some innocentpersons scapegoat and challaned them. From day one, it was clear that they were not the real culprits, and eventually they were acquitted.
Unfortunately, those officers who had implicated innocent persons were not taken to taskforlettingthe realculprits slip away and for implicating innocent persons. The police follow this practice with impunity.
Pressed to solve a crime, they arrestinnocent persons and concoct afalse story and earn plaudits. Let us hope this is not a concocted case and Imran Ali is not a scapegoat.
I advise the Punjab chief minister to distance himself from the process of prosecution so that the prosecution agency and the trial judge are not indirectly pressured.
