ISLAMABAD: Police have informed a sessions court that they
have cancelled a case against journalist and TV anchor Hamid Mir
pertaining to the kidnapping of Khalid Khwaja, a former intelligence
officer, since they have no evidence about the latter’s abduction.
The bullet-riddled body of former intelligence officer Khwaja was found in North Waziristan on April 30, 2010.
His
widow, Shamama, filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court seeking
registration of a criminal case against journalist Hamid Mir, as she
alleged that he along with a Taliban militant, Usman Punjabi, had
abducted her spouse from Islamabad.
On the IHC orders, a case was registered at the Ramna police station on Nov 4 against Mr Mir.
Sources
told Dawn on Friday that investigators approached a politician from
Kohat and recorded his statement in connection with the case.
They
said that the investigators did not find sufficient evidence to proceed
further and they recommended to the District and Sessions Court in
Islamabad to cancel the case.
They said that the police
informed the court that the offence of the kidnapping could not be
established during the investigation since the politician said that
Khawaja roamed freely in the area.
The sources said he
was neither murdered within the jurisdiction of the Ramna police station
nor any autopsy was performed, the police said, adding that there was
no medico-legal certificate which was necessary to register a murder
case.
Ramna SHO Inspector Irshad Abro confirmed that the case was cancelled and a report in this regard submitted in court.
