MPA Majeed Achakzai arrested in hit-and run-case from Quetta

Quetta police arrest lawmaker in hit-and-run case
Cop run over: MPA Majeed Achakzai arrested
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24 June, 2017

Police produced Achakzai, who belongs to the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), before a judicial magistrate on Saturday, who remanded the accused to police custody for five days.

Haji Attaullah Dasti, 42, a Traffic Sergeant was performing his duty on Shaheed Fayaz Sunbal Chowk on Tuesday evening when a vehicle ran over him.

The sub-inspector was critically injured.

However, initially, the police had registered a criminal case at the Civil Lines Police Station against "unidentified persons", allegedly under pressure to "hush up" the issue.

Member of Balochistan Assembly and Chairman Public Accounts Committee, Abdul Majeed Achakzai has been arrested for running his vehicle over a traffic police in Quetta. He was taken to Trauma centre but succumbed to injuries soon.

The incident had come to light when footage of the legislator's vehicle ramming into the traffic officer began circulating on social media on Friday.

Achakzai was elected to the provincial assembly from Killa Abdullah on PB-13.


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