The Supreme Court on Wednesday reprimanded Lahore police for its failure to recover Excise Inspector Nadeem Jaffery and Assistant Sub-Inspector Khalid Iqbal in six months' time, who were abducted from Lahore on June 29, 2006.
The three-member bench took suo motu action on an application of the families of the abductees, and called for a report from Punjab Police about the progress in the case.
SP, Investigation, Lahore, and SP, Investigation Organised Crimes, submitted that the police has arrested two real brothers, Asif and Aamir, of Gulshan-e-Ravi, Lahore, who admitted that they had abducted the Excise Inspectors and, after killing them, threw their bodies in the Nandipur Canal, in district Gujranwala.
They said that the missing officials of Excise Department had raided the factory of the accused and registered a case against them on 9/6/2006 in Yakki Police Station on charges of preparing illegal and alcoholic chemicals. They said that the accused took it as their disgrace and committed this heinous crime.
The investigating police officials submitted that Punjab Police has taken this case as a challenge and was making every effort to give a final report in a week's time. The court observed that it should b a matter of concern for the government that officials in uniform were abducted and the police seemed helpless to recover them, while the criminals had become more shrewd and clever than the police. The case was adjourned December 20, 2006.
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