Bahawalpur police lodge FIR over Millat Express incident
BAHAWALPUR (APP) - On the complaint of the brother of deceased, Maryam Bibi who was allegedly thrown out from Millat Express Train and died on the spot, police have registered an FIR against the employees of Railway police.
According to the FIR registered by Chani Goth police, the body of the deceased woman identified as Maryam Bibi, the resident of Jaranawala Tehsil of Faislabad and living in Karachi was found in area Bait No 5, Arain Wala/Dhaiwala/Lalo Naich/Chak No. 158, 159 and 160 NP lying within jurisdiction of Chani Goth police station of Ahmadpur tehsil of Bahawalpur district.
Plaintiff Muhammad Afzal, son of Muhammad Shoaib of Jaranwala tehsil, submitted his application with Chani Goth police station on April 16.
He submitted that his sister Maryam Bibi, 29-years-old had been living in C Area, Qayyumabad, Karachi to earn livelihood at a beauty parlour. “My sister had fast of 27th of Ramazanul Mubarak and along with her nephews including 11-years-old Muhammad Ghalib and 9-years-old Kanwal rode train Millat Express on April 7 to proceed to Faisalabad,” he narrated in the application.
The plaintiff submitted that Mir Hassan, constable of Railway police harassed and misbehaved with his sister Maryam Bibi and subjugated her of violence. “A passenger had captured the incident of torture in a video which had gone viral across Pakistan,” the FIR said.
The plaintiff claimed that Mir Hassan took away her sister Maryam Bibi to another biggie of the train and deprived her of cash and gold jewelry and later, threw her out of train in Chani Goth area. “Maryam Bibi received fractures to bones of hands and feet and received critical wounds in head which caused her death,” the plaintiff submitted.
The FIR was also registered on two other employees of Railway Department for allegedly being accomplices of major accused Mir Hassan. The plaintiff of the FIR submitted that the accused pushed Maryam Bibi out of train intentionally.
The Chani Goth police have started investigations into the incident. The postmortem of the deceased woman was carried out by a lady doctor at Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Ahmadpur tehsil of Bahawalpur district and later, the body was handed over to the heirs who took it away to Jaranwala tehsil of Faislaabad district. According to the postmortem report, the woman received critical wounds which caused her death.
