Ali Bilal tortured to death in police custody, says Fawad Ch

• He said ECP will be asked to stop Mohsin Naqvi from working
• Cabinet should be dissolved and new cabinet formed, he said.
• The PTI also sought judicial commission to investigate incident

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday said Ali Bilal alias Zille Shah was tortured to death in police custody, Bol News reported.

Addressing media in Lahore, while flanked by Musarrat Jamshed Cheema and other PTI leaders, Fawad Chaudhry said they were going to ask the Lahore High Court chief justice (CJ LHC) to form an independent judicial commission to investigate the incident.

He said they would also ask the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to stop Mohsin Naqvi from working in the province. The cabinet should be dissolved and new cabinet formed, he said. Being the CM and IG police, they would not face the accountability, hence they should be first removed from their posts, he asked.

The former federal information minister said the IG took all the CCTV footages from the Services Hospital with him which amounted to tampering the evidence.

The attempt to cover-up murder of Zille Shah was not a new thing, he said. He also said they tried to cover-up murder of Senior Bol News Anchorperson Arshad Sharif and assassination bid on PTI chief Imran Khan. They baton-charged PTI workers, he said adding that Ali Bilal was first baton-charged and then taken away on prisoner van.

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Section 144 was imposed when PTI rally was ready, he said. He said first the Punjab government alleged that the PTI killed him, then they decided to declare it an accident. “This all without complete investigation,” he said.

Fawad said Maryam Nawaz’s audio had also surfaced in which she said that they had to give the incident an angle of accident.

The post-mortem report had given details of the 26 injuries that he received on his body, he said. Fawad Chaudhry said Bol News had released pictures of the injury marks. All the pictures showed inhumane torture, he maintained.

The PTI leader said incidents of custodial torture would not have taken place if the courts had taken notice of torture on Shahbaz Gill.

He warned the Punjab caretaker government that the moment their government would go they would be held accountable and sent to jail. He said they would be racing to become approver in the cases.