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CHAKWAL: An inquiry into the killing of nine-year-old Australian national Hania Ahmed has found a Crime Control Department (CCD) Punjab constable guilty, concluding that he opened indiscriminate fire on a car without prior permission from senior officers.
The incident took place on the night of June 10-11 outside the CCD police station in Chakwal city. Adeel Ahmed, an Australian national, his wife and two minor children were being robbed by two armed men when the constable fired at Adeel’s car.
Hania was killed, while both Adeel and his son Afan were injured.
On June 18, CCD Chief Additional IG Sohail Zafar Chatha and Punjab Police IG Abdul Karim told a joint press conference in Lahore that the inquiry would be completed within a week. However, the report was submitted to the prosecutor’s office as a challan on July 28.
