Gandapur-led govt to lodge FIR towards Islamabad IGP over KP Home ‘raid’

Police personals stands alert outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House after Officials of Capital Development Authority (CDA) sealed the KP house, in Islamabad on October 7, 2024. — Online
Police personals stands alert outdoors Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home after Officers of Capital Improvement Authority (CDA) sealed the KP home, in Islamabad on October 7, 2024. — On-line

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities has determined to lodge a primary data report (FIR) towards the Islamabad police chief for “raiding” the provincial authorities’s residence throughout the PTI’s protest in Islamabad final month.

The choice was taken by the provincial cupboard in a session chaired by Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur to e-book Islamabad IGP Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi together with 600 police officers “beneath sections of terrorism, vandalism, and theft” for allegedly conducting a raid at KP Home within the federal capital.

In the course of the session, a report was offered earlier than the cupboard members to focus on damages to the KP Home throughout the police “raid”, amounting to greater than Rs10 million, together with a number of costly gadgets belonging to the KP chief minister and provincial lawmakers, sources informed Geo Information.

KP CM’s brother and a Member of the Nationwide Meeting (MNA), Faisal Amin Gandapur, informed Geo Information that they moved to the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) to register an FIR towards the Islamabad police chief.

He introduced that the FIR could be based mostly on opinions from the KP legislation secretary and authorized specialists, including that the case could be filed towards the Islamabad IGP in any respect prices.

Adviser to the Chief Minister on Info Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif and KP Minister for Public Well being Engineering Pakhtoon Yar Khan have additionally confirmed the event to Geo Information, pointing in direction of authorized motion towards those that violated the legislation by raiding the KP Home.

The provincial minister claimed the case could be filed towards the federal capital’s prime cop and others for “vandalism, terrorism, and theft”.

KP Advocate Basic Shah Faisal Uthmankhel additional detailed that beneath Article 179, FIR could be filed within the jurisdiction of a criminal offense scene, whereas, in some situations, instances have been additionally filed outdoors the prescribed limits.

Talking to Geo Information, the lawyer claimed that some FIRs had been registered in KP of incidents that came about in another country.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) firebrand politician and KP CM Gandapur had blamed the Islamabad police for “raiding” the KP Home, a provincial authorities’s residence within the federal capital, throughout the get together’s Islamabad protest which noticed clashes between legislation enforcers and employees from the Imran Khan-founded get together final month.

In the course of the former ruling get together’s protest, Gandapur went into self-imposed hiding and later resurfaced within the provincial meeting after a daylong disappearance and demanded the Centre to right away take away the Islamabad IGP for raiding the KP Home.

The KP chief government mentioned that he remained hidden on the rooftop of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home constructing for about 4 hours earlier than exiting the constructing by leaping the wall within the darkness.

Gandapur claimed that he had witnessed ransacking, beating of provincial police personnel and different employees within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home by the hands of Rangers who “had not solely violated the sanctity of the Pakhtunkhwa Home but additionally insulted the whole Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which was an integral a part of the federation of Pakistan”.