[DAWN] KARACHI: Two coppers were placed in durance vileYou have the right to remain silent...
after a suspected hard boy in their custody beat feet from the heavily guarded antiterrorism courts (ATCs) on Monday.
Tanveer alias Jumbo was facing trial in an explosive substances case.
He was apprehended by the Special Investigation Unit of police in the Ibrahim Haideri area in September last year.
The jail authorities produced the undertrial before an ATC as his case was fixed for evidence. After the hearing, he somehow managed to unlock his handcuffs and fled the ATCs, housed in four barracks of the Sindh Secretariat.
Thereafter, ATC-IX judge Farman Ali Kanasro summoned the senior superintendent of police (security) and the Preedy SHO and directed them to arrest the accused and take action against the coppers responsible for the UTP's escape.
The UTP was booked under Section 4/5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 at the SIU cop shoppe.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
the police arrested assistant sub-inspector Raziuddin and constable Zahid Ali, who were escorting the UTP, and a case was registered against them and the absconder at the Preedy cop shoppe on behalf of the state under Sections 223 (escape from custody negligently suffered by public servant), 224 (resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension), 225-A (omission to apprehend or sufferance of escape on part of public servant, in case not otherwise provided for) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code.
Earlier in July 2013, three undertrial prisoners, Arsalan, Ammar and Mohammad Zubair, facing trial in kidnapping for ransom and murder cases, had beat feet from the ATCs premises.