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| ATC orders policemen arrest in Benazir case |
| 2010-12-05 |
| [Geo News] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued warrants for the arrest of two coppers for their "failure" to protect slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a prosecutor said. The court had issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Rawalpindi's police chief at the time, Saud Aziz, and another senior police officer, Khurram Shahzad, special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali said. "I filed an application that the two coppers be summoned as accused in the case for their abetment in the crime and the court has accepted my request today," Ali told AFP. "The officers failed to provide adequate security to BB, denied her a post-mortem and were also responsible for hosing down the scene of the killing immediately after the crime," the prosecutor said. The court will resume the hearing on December 11, he said. Police said they had jugged five men in the weeks following BB's slaying and five other suspects were on the lam, of whom three had been killed, including Taliban capo Baitullah Mehsud. |
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