PTI activist Ali Bilal is said to have died in a “road mishap,” but the Punjab IGP Party is dismissing his story and claiming that a post-mortem study proves he was tortured.
According to the Punjab police head, Ali Bilal’s death was the result of a “road accident” and was “sadly misconstrued,” rejecting the PTI’s assertion that the provincial government was behind the purported murder of the organization’s worker.
The PTI claimed that Ali Bilal, alias Zillay Shah, died as a result of police brutality and torture after they cracked down on their members and supporters who had gathered to open the party’s election campaign on Wednesday near Imran Khan’s Zaman Town mansion.
A day earlier, the police claimed to have apprehended two individuals, Umar and Jahanzeb, who had claimed that Bilal had been injured after colliding with their automobile.
The activist, according to the PTI leadership, was “murdered” while in police custody.
Even the post-mortem examination of the body proved that Bilal died as a result of a severe blunt trauma to his body that fractured his skull and hemorrhaged inside of his skull.
The PTI activist received 26 further injuries to his body, according to the postmortem report.
IGP Dr. Usman Anwar stated at a press conference alongside interim Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi that CCTV footage “clearly” demonstrated that the case involved a “road collision”.
No one had purposefully attempted to kill Bilal, he continued.
The PTI activist’s body was allegedly driven to Services Hospital on Wednesday night in a black Vigo, according to the senior provincial cop.
The suspects appeared “tense” on the Surveillance tape, he added, maintaining this.
The two guys even attempted to “rescue the victim at one point and transport him to the hospital,” the police chief continued, describing the interpretation of the situation as “misfortunate”.
In addition to trying to save Bilal after the “accident,” the people in the car were not criminals, he said, but phony recordings were spreading on social media to disparage the police and the administration.
Anwar said that 31 CCTV cameras helped to identify the accident-causing vehicle.
The PTI Central Punjab President Raja Shakeel was the driver of the car that struck Bilal, according to a top police source.
Caretaker CM Naqvi asserted during his speech that his administration was not connected to the tragedy.
The PTI should stop making “baseless claims,” he continued.
He called out the PTI leadership for blaming the caretaker administration for Bilal’s murder, adding that he would not yield in to pressure from “curses and tweets”.
Naqvi firmly refuted allegations that he gave the Punjab police orders to take action against PTI activists.
He continued by saying that the IGP of Punjab would pay a personal visit to Bilal’s father and that the government of Punjab would offer financial support to the victim’s heirs.
“They [the PTI] did me and the police a big injustice. This wasn’t supposed to happen, he said.
The police’s investigation efforts were praised by the acting chief minister.
Naqvi claimed it was his “duty to bear such attacks with restraint” and that he would have responded to the accusations differently if he had not been granted the desired position.
He did, however, add that it was “too much” for the PTI to file a FIR accusing someone of murder on the basis on suppositions.
“I refuse to give up. Although I would want to return home, I won’t give up, said the acting chief minister.
Yasmin Rashid, the head of the PTI and a former provincial health minister, gave a news conference during which, despite being aware of the “facts of the occurrence,” she blamed the police and the government for Bilal’s murder. Naqvi condemned this.
The people in the car told her everything, but the PTI kept placing the blame on the provincial government, he claimed.
The acting chief minister claimed that money was offered to Bilal’s father in exchange for supporting the false account of his death.
In response to a question about the legitimacy of an audio recording that has been making the rounds on social media, he stated it did not require verification.
He disagreed with the PTI’s choice to host a rally on the same day as the Aurat March and other events taking place in Lahore.
Elections in Punjab were due to take place shortly, according to Naqvi, and any security concerns would have a negative impact on the province’s calm.
Imran, the leader of the PTI, criticized Naqvi in response to the press conference for allegedly fabricating a story.
He persisted in saying that torture in the custody of Bilal caused his death.
Imran Khan tweeted: “In any civilised country, these two despicable bastards would have been punished not just for lying so brazenly but for insulting the intelligence of our nation [as well]” in reference to the IGP and acting chief minister.
He continued by saying that this was what happened when “dangerous duffers” who thought everyone else was equally “stupid” as them took control of the nation.
PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry said the party would petition the Lahore High Court to establish a judicial panel to conduct an impartial probe into Bilal’s death during a news conference.
As a participant in a fund-raising effort for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Fund in 1992, Fawad claimed that Bilal was a “special youngster” and had been associated with Imran since then.
The former federal communications minister, who had photos of Bilal’s post-mortem printed with him, claimed that the PTI activist’s hands and wrists bore obvious signs of damage.
He continued by saying that Bilal would have been struck while shielding himself from sticks with his hands and wrists.
Fawad claimed that more similar incidents could have been avoided if the PTI leader Shahbaz Gill’s case of incarceration torture had been handled appropriately.
Yasmin Rashid, the leader of the PTI, claimed that Bilal had been tortured by highlighting the results of the post-mortem report during a speech she gave on a private TV news channel.
“The most important aspect is that they tortured his delicate organs. While it is a really sensitive place, let me tell you that it can also result in a cardiogenic shock,” she remarked on the show.
PTI’s Shireen Mazari, in an indirect reference to the caretaker chief minister, tweeted that his job was to conduct elections within 90 days and return home but he was busy “digging the graves of law and democracy by committing the worst violations of constitutional rights in the province on the instructions of his guardians”.
Without mentioning Naqvi by name, she continued by saying that the country would hold him accountable for the murder of “innocent Zille Shah” and every instance of constitutional infringement.
Shireen uploaded a video footage of the news conference during which the interim chief minister discussed the government’s arrest strategy in a different tweet.
“Mohsin Naqvi acknowledges that he had had a strategy in place to detain [the PTI activists]. He is showing signs of being a serious criminal, just like his bosses, she said.
The main evidence against Naqvi, according to PTI leader Hammad Azhar, was Bilal’s post-mortem report and the murder case filed against Imran and his associates.
