[Pak Daily Times] The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered the arrest of police officials involved in the Sialkot incident. The SC expressed dissatisfaction over police's performance for not nabbing the four absconding police officials involved in the execution of two brothers in Sialkot last month and directed that the accused officials be arrested by next Sunday. "Why is police so helpless in nabbing the culprits involved in the gruesome murder of two brothers," Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry questioned while hearing a suo motu case initiated over media reports of lynching of two brothers in Sialkot by a mob with the patronage of police on August 15.
The court directed police to ensure the arrest of the four absconding police officials, including SHO Rana Muhammad Ilyas, constables Mubarik Ali, Tariq Mahmood and ASI Waris Ali, who had been involved in the brutal killing of brothers Mughees and Muneeb. Punjab Advocate General Khawaja Haris, Punjab Additional Advocate General Khadim Hussain Qaisar and newly-appointed Sialkot DPO Bilal Siddique Kamyana appeared in the court on Thursday. Haris placed on record a report prepared by the DIG (Investigation) about the killing of another victim Bilal and injuring of two others on the same day the two brothers had been executed. He said that FIR number 427 had been registered in this regard.