KARACHI: Police on Tuesday in its charge sheet submitted on March 24 on Maqsood killing case stated that policeman ASI Tariq shot the deceased from a close range.

Law enforcement authorities on January 20th claimed to kill a wanted suspect, Maqsood, in a shootout near Faisal Base at Shahra-e-Faisal on January 20. However, police later backtracked on their initial statement hours later stating that the citizen was in fact killed due to the firing of the real suspect engaged in a shootout with the police.

The charge sheet further stated that Tariq shot two other people after dragging them out from a rickshaw, along with the deceased.

Man killed in Karachi police encounter was innocent, says Siyal

Maqsood was killed in a police encounter a few days back

Sheikh Muhammad, the father of the deceased expressed reservations over the charge sheet, and demanded the authorities to present CCTV video of the incident to the public.

?My son has been martyred by police. I have not received any justice. He was possessing no weapon, I demand authorities to release the CCTV video so that people can know about the reality,? he said.

Human rights activist and the deceased?s family counsel Jibran Nasir demanded the court to nullify bail given to ASI Tariq and four other suspects named in the case.

?Police has stated in the challan that no weapons were found. The deceased was not a dacoit. As a counsel, I have seen the CCTV video in which it can be seen that the policeman shot the innocent in name of the encounter,? Nasir said.

Karachi police make U-turn, admit slain 'suspect' was innocent

Deceased identified as Maqsood was in a rickshaw during the shootout, police said

Earlier, Sindh Home Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal said incidents of innocent people being killed in police encounters were taking place one after another. But, he added, police would not be doing this on purpose.

The minister called Maqsood, ?innocent?. He also said the impression that government was trying to protect someone was wrong.

Speaking to Geo News on Jan 20, Sindh IG AD Khawaja sided with the police officials after the incident.

Responding over the reservations expressed by late Maqsood?s sister of the role played by the police in the incident, the police chief said: "If they have doubts that the police is at fault we will conduct an inquiry."