130 Sindh Police officials were forced to retire over criminal activities: report

KARACHI: IG Sindh AD Khawaja submitted a report containing names of police officials involved in different criminal activities and violation of code of conduct in the Supreme Court Karachi Registry on Friday.

On Thursday, a two-member bench of Supreme Court had expressed discontentment on lack of action against as many as 66 police officials named in criminal records. The judges had shown their reservations on leniency shown to certain police officials.

The report submitted today contained names of 130 police officers and personnel who were forced to retire.

The ones forced to retire from the force included inspectors Hameedullah Niazi, Hummayun Ahmed and Hayatullah, according to the report.

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Sub-inspectors (SIs) Ghulam Rasool, Abdul Sattar, Amjad Pervez, Mohammad Yasin, Mohammad Mumtaz, Mohammad Afzal, Riasat Ali, Lal Khan Khatak, Akber Hameed Ghauri, Khalid Mahmood Butt, Rehmat Ali, Syed Hussain Raza, Atta Mohammad, Muneer Hussain Chandio, Luqman Bangash, Mohammad Javed, Mohammad Shafi and Mohammad Yousuf were also among the ones relieved from service, it said.

The report stated that assistant sub-instectors (ASIs) Fakhar Awais, Lal Mohammad, Altaf Raza, Sabir Hussain, Syed Mehboob Ali Shah, Mohammad Shafi, Ghulam Yasin were also among officials who faced forced retirement.

It said that 19 officers were dismissed from service.

The IG Sindh assured the court that no one will be discriminated against in the investigations into the matter.