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CTD officer held as suspect flees

By Our Staff Reporter 2017-03-07
KARACHI: An official of the police’s Counter-Terrorism Department on Monday was arrested as the suspect in a murder case managed to escape from his custody in Quaidabad while being shifted from court to jail, said a senior official.

The CTD sub-inspector, Ashraf Gondal, has been arrested over charges of negligence and alleged connivance with the accused, Adeel, said CTD DIG Amir Farooqi.

The senior officer told Dawn that the CTD team had arrested Adeel in a murder case in 2014.

On Monday, the CTD police presented him before a relevant court for hearing. Mr Gondal, instead of taking the suspect in a police mobile to the Landhi jail, told his police colleagues that he would drop him there himself. Mr Farooqi said the arrested officer claimed that on way to the jail, he was ‘tranquilised’ by the relatives of the suspect, after which he managed to escape.

However, the CTD DIG said initial probe suggested that Mr Gondal was lying. Mr Farooqi said it was revealed that the officer had brought Adeel to a restaurant in Quaidabad, unlocked his handcuffs and in the meantime, the suspect’s relatives arrived and took him away.