Catch blast kills children: Case registered against FC personnel, sit-in with children's bodies ends
A case has been registered against Frontier Corps personnel for killing two younger siblings and injuring a close relative in an explosion in Balochistan's Ketch district.
The case has been registered on the orders of the Balochistan High Court in the complaint of Mehrab Baloch, grandfather of the children killed in the CTD (Counter-Terrorism Department) Makran police station.
It may be recalled that on October 5, two minor siblings were killed and a child was seriously injured in an explosion in the Ketch district of Balochistan. The children's relatives had alleged that the incident was caused by a shell fired by the FC, but FC officials denied the allegation and claimed that the children were killed by the hand grenade. The reason they were playing.
The families of the children initially protested with the bodies in the Ketch district, but due to 'lack of justice', the families moved their sit-in with the bodies in front of the Governor's House in Quetta and demanded that the case be investigated by the FC. To be registered against the concerned officials.
Dealing with a petition filed in this regard yesterday, a bench of Balochistan High Court comprising Chief Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Justice Abdul Hameed Baloch ordered the suspension of three administration officials, including Deputy Commissioner Ketch, and disciplinary action against them.
Following the order of the High Court, the family members announced the end of the sit-in and buried the children.
Who were the children who died?
The dead and injured children are mainly from the Balgutar area of the Panjgur district.
The children's grandfather, Mehrab Baloch, told the janisports. online that the two children killed were siblings, aged between six and seven, and that the third child injured was a relative.
He said the children's father had been working in Dubai for the past three years and had two children.
Another relative present at the sit-in, Sardo Baloch, said that his family had recently relocated from Balgutar to Perkotg in the Hoshop area due to heavy security operations in Balgutar."We moved from there to Hoshop to be safe here, but here too our innocent children were killed."
How did this matter reach the High Court?
Senator Kamran Murtaza Advocate, a senior lawyer and former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, had written a letter to the Chief Justice of Balochistan requesting him to look into the matter.
Apart from the families of the children, Additional Chief Secretary Home Government of Balochistan Arshad Majeed, Additional IG Balochistan Police Zulfiqar Hameed, Deputy Commissioner Catch Hussain Jan Baloch, and other officials appeared in the court during the hearing.
During the hearing, Kamran Murtaza Advocate presented a copy of DSR (Daily Situation Report) according to which Naib Tehsildar Hoshop received information that a mortar shell was fired by FC in the Perkotg area in which children were injured. Happened
According to the report, when they reached the spot, the children's relatives said that the children were playing outside their houses when a rocket was fired by the FC, killing two children and injuring one.
Kamran Murtaza Advocate said that despite the signature of Deputy Tehsildar on DSR, no FIR has been registered yet. During the hearing, Deputy Commissioner Ketch did not give satisfactory answers to the court's questions.
During the hearing, the court directed the DIG Crimes Branch to form an investigation team comprising three senior police officers to conduct a clear and transparent inquiry into the incident. Also ordered The court directed the Balochistan government to pay the medical expenses of the injured child in advance.
At the suggestion of Kamran Murtaza Advocate, the court directed the Additional Chief Secretary Home Affairs to declare the deceased children as martyrs and raise their families with the concerned department for payment of compensation.
The court ordered the immediate suspension of Deputy Commissioner Ketch, Deputy Tehsildar Hoshop, and Assistant Commissioner Turbat and initiated disciplinary action against them for negligence and incompetence. The High Court directed the concerned authorities to submit a report on the disciplinary action against these officers to the court.
"I lost my life when I saw children addicted to bile in their blood."
The children's deaths occurred in the Perkotg area of Hoshop in Ketch District. Sardo Baloch, the uncle of the slain children, told the JaniSports.online that he had slaughtered the animals on Sunday and that the three children were playing under a tree behind their house after distributing the meat.
"About ten-thirty I heard a loud explosion in the back of the house."
"When I went to the back of the house, I saw that all three children were covered in blood. The tree under which the children were playing was also hit by the shell and a pit fell on the ground.
"I was already scared of the blast and when I saw small children addicted to bile in my blood, I lost my life, which made it difficult for me to pick up the children," he said.
He said there were about 15 houses of his other relatives in Perkotg, most of whose men had gone to work, so he and a few others present there first took the children to the Hoshop Bazaar on motorbikes and He was later taken to Turbat Hospital by car.
"We were told at Turbat Hospital that two children had died while the condition of the injured child was critical and he was shifted to Karachi," he said.
FC officials destroy evidence: Survivors
Sardo Baloch claimed that the shell that killed the children was allegedly fired by the FC camp. When he was told that the FC and the deputy commissioner had denied the allegation of shelling by the FC there, Sardo Baloch said that the shelling was fired from the FC camp which was far from his house. Not too far.
He said the shelling had caused a ditch and affected the tree under which the children were sitting. He said that since it was important for him to save the lives of the children first, he tried to take the children to the hospital instead of preserving the evidence.
He alleged that FC personnel came to the spot after the incident and allegedly tortured people and destroyed the evidence there. "In addition to filling the hole that had fallen there, the affected tree was set on fire.""After his departure, if the people of the government had a hand grenade pin there, they could not say anything about it, but our children were killed and injured by the shelling," he alleged.
A Frontier Corps official, when contacted, denied the allegations, saying no shells were fired by the FC and no evidence was found. Definitely found. Speaking to the janisports, Deputy Commissioner Ketch Hussain Baloch had said that according to the initial inquiry into the incident, no evidence of shelling had been found.
He said that the concerned tehsildar and other officials had also visited the spot and collected samples of evidence from there.
He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture. Asked why no judicial tribunal had been set up to look into the matter after the incident, he said they had now moved to Quetta and it remains to be seen what the government's decision would be. Will