Zubair Qureshi
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) of Islamabad will indict on March 5 the five suspects , officials of Islamabad police, arrested in the Osama Satti murder case.
Satti, the 21-year-old student, was killed on January 2 when the Islamabad police personnel opened fire at him for not stopping his car near Sector G-10.
In the hearing on Friday, suspects Mudassir, Shakeel Ahmed, Muhammad Mustafa, Saeed Ahmed, and Iftikhar Ahmed were produced before the court and shown the interim challan prepared against them by the police.
The challan was also submitted in court. It was decided that the trial of the case will be transferred to another anti-terrorism court and will be heard by Judge Shahrukh Arjumand.
Osama’s family said that the 21-year-old was coming back after dropping a friend to university when the policemen opened fire at his vehicle. “He was shot, six bullets, just for not stopping his car,” the victim’s father said in a video statement.
His parents filed a complaint against the police officials demanding action be taken against them immediately.
Following this, five officials of the Anti-Terrorism Squad were arrested. A Joint Investigation Team was formed by the Islamabad chief commissioner to investigate the killing.
The JIT is being headed by Saddar SP Sarfaraz Virk and will include representatives from the ISI, MI, and IB as well as the Ramna DSP, Investigation DSP, and Ramna SHO.
Later, the accused police officers were sacked from their jobs. Cases under sections 302 (murder), 148 (rioting armed with a deadly weapon), and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Pakistan Penal Code have been registered against them at Islamabad’s Ramna police station.
