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Summary A report on extortion has been submitted to the SC Karachi Registry.
In the last hearing, while reserving the judgment in the suo motu case, a larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, had sought report from CCPO Karachi on daily efforts made for the restoration of peace in the city.As per details, the case No.16/2011 and Constitutional Petitions Nos. 60 & 61/2011 pertaining to law & order situation in Karachi, had directed the Capital City Police Officer, Karachi (Mr. Saud Mirza) to furnish certificates duly signed by the DIGs of respective Zones of Karachi on day to day basis to the effect that all efforts shall be made by them to control crime, and in particular they will ensure that no crime of Bhatta or extortion of money takes place in their areas.In pursuance of the direction of the Court, M/s Iftikhar Tarar, DIG (CIA) Karachi and Lt. Cdr. (R) Shoukat Ali, DIG (South) Karachi earlier submitted reports in the Supreme Court of Pakistan that in their respective areas from 24th August 2011 till today no case of Bhatta (Extortion) or illicit collection of money occurred except one case in South Region (FIR-236/2011 u/s 384,385 & 605-B PPC, Mithadar Police Station).Likewise, Mr. Imran Yaqoob Minhas, DIG (West) Karachi has submitted report that in his area 10 cases of Bhatta collection were reported during the period from 24-8-2011 till today, which have been registered in the respective Police Stations and are under investigation. Mr. Muhammad Naeem Brohkha, DIG (East) Karachi while submitting report of his area stated that six cases of Bhatta collection occurred, for which FIRs were registered and the same were under investigation.It has been further ensured by all the DIGs that if offence of such nature or of any other nature (murder, target killing and/or extortion) occurred in their respective areas, the SHO of the concerned Police Station shall be suspended, posted out and proceeded against departmentally.
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