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in this case, this particular mobile had not been taken for "security reasons"
because it was an expensive unit and could not have been exposed to any
danger.
What had been done was that the laboratory equipment had been taken out
and sent to the scene of the shooting, he said. He said the teams were moved
to the scene of incidents on the information given by the police stations or
any senior officers' advice. He maintained that the then DIG Crimes, Masood
Paracha, also visited the site of the shooting the next day and he himself was
there, having arrived there separately.
The tribunal asked the witness whether all his movements were entered in
the station diary to which he said this was done by the staff. At this point the
tribunal asked that DSP Shamim Hussain, the liaison officer of the police with
the tribunal, to go to the office of the AIG and bring back the register, but for
deciphering the writing in it, the man who had made the entries was called to
appear on Wednesday morning. Karim Khan Agha, counsel for DIG Shoaib
Suddle, ASPs Shahid Hayat and Rai Tahir, asked the AIG whether the report
he had submitted and signed had not been actually written by him but by
somebody else. The witness denied the suggestion.
Q: Any other documents still lying in your office, other than what you have
submitted before the tribunal?
A: No document or report is left over and my statement is complete. The
counsel then produced a two-page document signed by him which was not
part of the papers submitted before the tribunal, but which pertained to 19
opinions about 61 photographs taken at the site.
AIG: I was advised by the AAG Latif Abdul Ansari not to include (this
particular) document because those pictures had not been taken by him. "It is
a report prepared by inspector Ghulam Abbas, a ballistic expert, and signed
by both of us. I had not included this report because these pictures were not
taken by my people."
Tribunal: But he has given opinion about the pictures and, therefore, it was
important to have been included.
Q: Did you get advice from the government of Sindh what reports be
included and which ones not be included?
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