PESHAWAR, Oct 28: Local judicial magistrate Shaukat Khan on Monday ordered inclusion of the names of 12 police officials, including former inspectors general of police (IGPs) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad, in the case registered in the provincial capital against the mysterious death of the former Islamabad police chief`s daughter-in-law a few months ago.

Supreme Court Chief Justice If tikhar Mohammad Chaudhry had taken notice of the matter on an application filed by Bibi Zahida, mother of the deceased, Waheeda alias Palwasha.

The officers, whose names are to be included in the FIR of the case, are former Islamabad IGP Bani Amin Khan, ex-IGP of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ihsan Ghani, Peshawar SSP (Operations) Imran Shahid, Peshawar SP (Cantonment) Faisal Kamran, ASP of University Town Umar Farooq, SHO of Town police station Sardar Hussain, investigation officer Rizwanullah, Islamabad SSP (Operations) Yaseen Farooq, Islamabad SP of Saddar Jamil Hashmi, DSP of Margalla Rasheed Niazi, SHO of Shalimar police station Sajjad Haider and sub-inspector of Shalimar police station Rasheed Ahmad.

The magistrate also ordered the quashing of FIR registered against 12 police officials a few days ago under some less stringent sections of laws, observing that in light of the directives of the apex court, the said officials should have been nominated in the original FIR.

In that FIR, the officials are charged under Section 166 (public servant disobeying law) and Section 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public function) of Pakistan Penal Code.

In the instant case, brother of the deceased, Khalid Khan, and his wife, Fauzia, were arrested but the latter was freed on bail on the high court orders, whereas Khalid is still behind bars.

Husband of the deceased, Ali Amin, who is son of IGP Bani Amin, was granted interim pre-arrest bail by the Peshawar district and sessions judge a few days ago and his case is now fixed for hearing on Nov 6.

The case was registered on the complaint of Zahida. She has charged her husband, Darya Khan Bangash, a local businessman, son and daughter-in-law Fauzia for the `murder`.

She suspected that her daughter had not died of natural death and was in fact killed by the suspects on May 19, 2013.

She also alleged that husband of the deceased, Ali Amin, used to remain under influence of alcohol and roughly treated the deceased following which a complaint was also lodged with the Islamabad women police station in 2012 by the deceased.

In her application to the chief justice of Pakistan the complainant had charged officials of both Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad police of being conniving with the alleged killers of her daughter and due to which the local police in Peshawar had not registered the FIR.

She claimed that after her death, the alleged killers transported her body in haphazard manner to Islamabad without registration of FIR and autopsy.

Later, she said after she raised hue and cry, the body was shifted back for autopsy and FIR was registered by the Islamabad police.

After the Supreme Court took notice of the issue, the FIR was registered by the local police at University Town police station on July 10 on the court orders.

Initially, after the occurrence, accused Khalid Khan claimed that the deceased had died of natural death but later said she had fallen off the stairs.

The postmortem report showed that she had died of suffocation. Her body also allegedly carried certain pricks of needles suggesting that some drug was injected into her body.

The deceased had come to Peshawar along with her two children to the residence of her parents from where she was allegedly taken by her brother to his house and in the morning, she was found dead.