KARACHI: Senior police officers in Karachi have recommended that the Dua Mangi abduction case should be heard inside the Central Jail Karachi, days after the prime suspect of the case fled from custody.
Two police personnel were remanded in police custody on Jan 28 while Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah ordered the suspension of Courts SSP Azam Durrani after it emerged that the prime accused in kidnapping case of Dua Mangi had escaped.
According to the first information report (FIR) of the incident, Zohaib Ali Qureshi, one of the accused in the 2019 kidnappings, was presented before the court on Thursday. After attending the hearing, Qureshi and police personnel accompanying him stopped at a mall where the accused “wanted to shop” but he fled from there.
The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Prisons today has penned down a letter to the Karachi Deputy Inspector General Prisons, saying that the suspects were dangerous people and therefore the trial should be held inside the jail.
The letter said taking the suspects to the court involves security risks while the prime suspect has already fled because of the negligence of the officers. “Therefore, it is requested to make the trial possible inside the jail with the permission of the interior department”, it added.
The Abduction
Dua Mangi, was 22 when she had been abducted outside a restaurant in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on November 30, 2019.
She was walking with her friend, Haris Soomro, on a street in the area when the kidnappers pulled up and threatened them both with a gun. When the Soomro resisted, he was shot by one of the kidnappers who then abducted the young woman and fled.
Subsequently, in January 2021 an anti-terrorism court (ATC) indicted five suspects Muzaffar, Tariq, Zuhaib Qureshi, Waseem Raja and Fayyaz Qureshi for allegedly abducting Dua and demanding ransom for her release.
