PESHAWAR: An anti-terrorism court below on Saturday rejected the pre-arrest bail plea of a guy suspected of killing a polio police officer in Mohmand tribal district in 2019 for reporting his refusal to immunize his daughter.

Petitioner Zubair was taken into custody after the judge articulated the denial of his request after the conclusion of disagreements by both parties.

Wajid Ali, the union council polio officer, was gunned down on April 8, 2019, in the territory of the Haleemzai police headquarters in Mohmand tribal area.

The police had registered FIR of the killing on the complaint of the deceased’s dad, Malik Bakht Munir, under sections 302, 327 and also 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Area 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Wajid was shot dead apparently for reporting inoculation refusal

The plaintiff had stated his boy had mosted likely to oversee an anti-polio project in Yaseen Kor town as well as suspect Zubair had fired at him with a pistol as the latter got on the method to home.

He included that individuals shifted his boy to the hospital yet he succumbed to vital injuries.

The complainant asserted that the suspect was opposed to the inoculation of his seven-month-old child against polio and also the polio officer had reported that to the rage of the previous, that shot him down for retribution.

The killing had actually drawn widespread condemnation. The World Health Organisation had likewise expressed shock as well as dismay over the murder of Wajid Ali and declared him a devoted front-line polio employee in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The complainant’s attorney, Nouman Muhib Kakakhel, said that the suspect was called in the murder instance.

He suggested that the objective was clear that the suspicious declined the administration of anti-polio declines to his kid, so the deceased submitted a report versus him to the appropriate authorities for action.

The guidance stated the documents of the suspect’s call confirmed his existence at the crime site and disclosed that he called one more man, that assisted him run away.

He included the associate, Hamza, and some males were booked for safeguarding the absconder.

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Mr Kakakhel contended that the suspect had made off for over two years before approaching the court for pre-arrest bail.

He added that an absconding believed awesome had actually lost several of his rights due to his conduct, including the right to bail.

The advice competed that the suspect had brought a bad name to the country by withstanding polio inoculation and eliminating a polio officer, who had actually worked day and night for the obliteration of the virus in the nation.

He added that the targeted killing of the polio police officer had produced a sense of worry among the people, especially those pertaining to the vaccination of the kids against the virus.