The mother of Mustafa Amir condemned the Sindh police for tarnishing her son’s character, following the suspension and demotion of three police officers for mishandling the kidnapping and murder case of the 23-year-old in Karachi’s Defense Housing Authority.
Amir was abducted from DHA on January 6, and two weeks later, his family received a ransom call. During the investigation, police arrested a man named Armaghan after a shoot-out. Armaghan claimed that Amir had been murdered by his friends.
Speaking to the media, Wajeeha Amir asserted that Mustafa’s murder was “pre-planned.” She alleged that the suspects drove a car without a number plate to Balochistan, where they burned her son inside the vehicle so that “no one could hear the blast.”
“Mustafa was avoiding them,” she said, claiming that the culprits had been planning his murder for some time and executed it on January 6. She dismissed the notion of a “random dispute,” insisting that her son was deliberately targeted.
“For 20 days, the police and SSP Ali Hassan continued to malign my son’s reputation instead of taking action,” she said, adding that she would file an FIR against the SSP. Accusing the senior police officer of acting under external influence, she demanded that he be named in Mustafa’s murder case alongside Armaghan.
Also read: The story of betrayal, abduction & murder: What we know about Mustafa Amir’s case
“SSP Ali Hassan should be suspended immediately,” she urged, appealing to SSP Anees Haider to conduct a thorough investigation. She also expressed concerns that others, besides Armaghan, were involved in her son’s murder.
Meanwhile, Deputy Inspector General of Police (South) Syed Asad Raza said that “three officers were suspended after they failed to achieve any breakthrough in the case.” In response to the mother’s allegations against Ali Hassan, the DIG acknowledged the video and said that an inquiry would be conducted into the allegations.
According to two orders issued by DIG South, the station house officer Abdul Rasheed Pathan and the station investigation officer Zulfiqar Ahmed of Darakhshan police station were reverted to their substantive rank of assistant sub-inspectors.
