DSP Malik Maqsood faked his Jacob Lines attack: DIG Tahir Naveed

KARACHI: The findings of investigation into an alleged armed attack on Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Malik Maqsood revealed that such attack never took place at least in Jacob Line, Geo News reported.

According to Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Tahir Malik, DSP Maqsood faked the attacked to frame the police officers he wanted to settle a score with.

DSP Maqsood had claimed that gunmen opened fire on his car in Jacob Lines area, however the bullet marks on his official vehicle came for the gunshots fire by the protestors near Sohrab Goth.

According to details, some days back DSP Maqsood and his men had resorted to aerial firing to force their way through a roadblock put up by protesters near Sohrab Goth only to incur a retaliatory fire from some of the armed demonstrators.

He and his associates, however, survived that attack.

The result was a police car with multiple bullet holes in it, which Maqsood conspired to "assassinate the characters" of some of his fellows with. Thus he invented the Jacob Line attack story but forgot to make sure that none of his minions spill the beans.

The sources said one his junior officers squealed under pressure and laid everything bare before the authorities.

DIG Tahir Malik said DSP Maqsood would face disciplinary action for conspiracy, blackwash, lying to the officers of law, etc.