DIG’s ‘under influence’ son injures woman in car accident

• Asher Azfar hits woman while travelling in govt vehicle in Garden.
• DIG Azfar Maeshar’s son was intoxicated, say police sources.
• Suspect, along with two security personnel shifted to police station.
  

KARACHI: In a rather disturbing turn of events, Rapid Response Force Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Azfar Mahesar’s son was involved in a car accident while allegedly being under the influence.

Accompanied by two police personnel, Asher Azfar Mahesar was travelling in a vehicle, bearing a government number plate, in Karachi’s Garden area when he hit a woman with the car leaving her seriously wounded, said the police.

Police sources say that Asher was allegedly intoxicated at the time of the incident and the gunmen accompanying him resorted to aerial firing to disperse the people who had gathered around the vehicle after the incident.

Asher, along with DIG’s nephew Mubashir Raza and two personnel of the Rapid Response Force have been taken into custody and transferred to the relevant police station.

Meanwhile, the injured woman has been shifted to Civil Hospital.

This is not the first time Asher has been found involved in some controversy as last year his videos went viral showing him brandishing different firearms ranging from assault rifles to handguns and shooting into the air at different locations, sometimes while driving a car.

The incident warranted an intervention by Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ghulam Nabi Memon who had ordered an inquiry into the matter of the-then DIG East’s son.

The senior police officer, back then, had dismissed the videos as propaganda against his son and claimed that he was not involved in any wrongdoing.