Heavy security deployment to quell CTD `killing` protests
2023-12-12
QUETTA: The local administration deployed aheavycontingentofpolice and other security forces, sealing the red zone area of the provincial capital on Monday evening before the arrival of the long march participants protesting against the killing of Balaach Mola Bakhsh in the CTD encounter in Turbat.
Hundreds of people, including family members of Mr Balaach and women, reached Mastung town on Monday.
The local administration placed heavy containers on roads leading to the Red Zone, where the Governor and ChiefMinister houses, civil secretariat, and officials of other important institutions are located.
Meanwhile, a division bench of the Balochistan High Court, comprising Chief Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Justice Nazeer Ahmed Langove, ordered the suspension of four CTD officials nominated in the FIR registered against them in connection with the killing.
Mola Bakhsh, the victim`s father, had filed a petition in the high court praying for registering an FIR against the CTD officials.-Saleem Shahid