The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has demanded a ban on CCD encounters in Punjab.
In its statement, the HRCP said that there are serious concerns over alleged fake police encounters in Punjab, the Crime Control Department (CCD) has adopted a policy of conducting fake encounters, in 8 months the CCD has conducted 670 encounters in which 924 suspects were killed.
The statement further said that CCD encounters are not individual but institutional procedures, and the lack of judicial and magisterial inquiries on CCD is worrying.
The HRCP demanded that the FIA, in collaboration with the National Commission for Human Rights, investigate CCD encounters.
It should be noted that the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh has been found involved in serious incidents of extrajudicial killing of previously forcibly disappeared persons in fake operations.
Yesterday, the CTD claimed to have killed 18 people in Karachi, Barkhane and Quetta in apparent terrorist encounters, regarding which the family has taken the position that they were previously forcibly disappeared.
Similarly, 4 people were extrajudicially killed in Karachi, who were first forcibly disappeared, then the authorities announced their arrest through a press conference and presented them in court, while the previous day they were killed in a fake police encounter, after which their families are protesting and demanding action against the involved officers and officials and a transparent investigation into the murder.
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