Sindh govt defers judicial commission decision on Mir Raza Ali murder case probe
Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar said on Monday the provincial government had deferred the decision on the formation of a judicial commission to probe the Mir Raza Ali murder case. Lanjar made the announcement on X, saying that Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab had spoken to Ali’s family, who had expressed “confidence in the new police team” constituted to investigate the case and was of the…
The Sindh government has postponed its decision on creating a judicial commission to investigate the Mir Raza Ali murder case. According to Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, the Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab had spoken to Ali’s family, who expressed confidence in the new police team assigned to investigate the case. The family believes Ali was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered, while the police had initially suspected suicide.
Ali, an IBA graduate and owner of an eatery, went missing on July 28 and his body was discovered a day later with a gunshot wound in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar. In response to a recommendation for a judicial commission from PPP leader Faryal Talpur, Lanjar and Wahab assured the family of complete justice. However, Jibran Nasir, the family's lawyer, denied any request for a judicial commission, stating they had faith in the new investigation team.
The Sindh inspector general of police later reconstituted the investigating team due to a discrepancy between Ali's second postmortem report and the first one. The controversy over the autopsy included disagreements between the Karachi police surgeon and investigators regarding the findings of the first postmortem examination.
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