(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the findings of a police investigation submitted to Supreme Court Judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on 16 October 2006 clearing “The News” journalist Shakeel Anjum of any involvement in the murder of three arms traffickers. The judge, who had ordered the enquiry, dismissed all charges against Anjum. The case […]
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the findings of a police investigation submitted to Supreme Court Judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on 16 October 2006 clearing “The News” journalist Shakeel Anjum of any involvement in the murder of three arms traffickers. The judge, who had ordered the enquiry, dismissed all charges against Anjum.
The case dates back to May 2005 when Anjum, a crime reporter, wrote a story implicating a police officer, Idrees Rathore, in the summary execution of two youths. Rathore, who was never investigated in connection with the double murder, saw a chance for revenge when the three arms traffickers were murdered in September 2006. He pressured a witness into saying that Anjum was corrupt and had intervened to get the forensic report changed.
Anjum’s investigative reporting is credited with helping to reduce corruption within the police force.
