JIT records statements of cops, commandos.

GUJRAT -- The members of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to investigate the Wazirabad gun attack on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, on Monday inspected the crime scene for the third time since its formation by the Punjab government.

The members of JIT SP (Counter Terrorism Department) Naseebullah and SP Rawal town Rawalpindi Malik Tariq jointly visited the Wazirabad city where they inspected the crime scene.

However, the head of JIT Ghulam Mehmood Dogar [the capital city police officer Lahore] was not accompanying the team as he had already inspected the scene during the last visit a few days ago.

The JIT also recorded the statements of Wazirabad city circle DSP Malik Aamir, station house officers of city and Saddar police stations as well as the commandos of elite force who had arrested shooter Naveed Araen of Sohdara.

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Moreover it is learnt that the officials of Gujrat Saddar police station were also grilled by the JIT members as the entire staff of that particular police station had been put under suspension by Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhary Parvez Elahi following the leak of a video recording carrying the confessional statement of the detained suspect within hours of the incident.

The PTI long march on its way to Islamabad from Lahore, had come under attack on Nov 3 the last as a result of which at least 11 people including party chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan were injured and a party worker Moazzam Gondal of Bharoki village of Wazirabad was shot dead.

The attacker was arrested from the scene...

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