The judicial commission, formed to investigate the death of businessman Mir Raza Ali, issued a notice to investigation team head DIG Amir Farooqi on Monday, seeking clarification over the alleged withholding of records. The commission, headed by Sindh High Court Justice Omar Sial, observed that the records appeared to have been deliberately withheld from it and that the deceased's parents were raising valid concerns. It made the observation while examining the statement of Mir Raza's friend Raziq, saying the seven-line statement presented before it was missing critical information.
Raziq told the commission that a receipt found in the room indicated that Mir Raza had met someone named Ahmed Raja in the evening, a detail his fiancée had also shared. The commission noted that this information was absent from the police record. The focal person gave assurances that video statements of witnesses would be submitted by Tuesday, prompting the commission to adjourn further proceedings until the following day.
Meanwhile, the commission also questioned SHO Gulistan-e-Jauhar Kamran Qureshi over multiple procedural failures. When Qureshi claimed the body had been found in his jurisdiction and he was merely assisting the relevant police, the commission questioned what investigation he had actually conducted and pointed out that immoral activities were being carried out at a guesthouse in his area, asking how the area's watchman knew about them but the SHO did not.
The commission directed the Sindh government's focal person to seal the daily registers of Ferozabad and Gulistan-e-Jauhar police stations and present them before the commission. Further notices were issued to SSP CIA, ASP Jamshed, SHO Site Super Highway and SHO Aziz Bhutto over their unexplained presence at the crime scene as the hearings continued.
