Court announces shooting of Pakistani journalist in Kajiado County by police in 2022 ‘arbitrary and unconstitutional’, reported in The Tribune News.
Kenya’s High Court has summoned its administration to balance the family of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif with 10 million Kenyan Shillings (Rs21.7 million) after judging that his shooting by police in Kajiado County in 2022 was “arbitrary and unconstitutional.”
According to Kenyan news agency NTV, “Justice Stella Mutuku of the Kenyan court declared that Sharif’s rights to life, equality before the law, and dignity were violated in the incident on October 23, 2022.”
Arshad Sharif, who had retired from Pakistan in July 2022 amid blame for censuring the army, was badly shot by Kenyan police in the Tinga area of Kajiado County, later featured by police to a circumstance of “mistaken identity”.
The court discontinued the economic award for 30 days to permit a possible administration inducement.
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“Given the analysis above, I find that the respondents, through their actions, violated the rights of the petitioners,” Justice Mutuku marked.
The widow, Javeria Siddique, had pointed a lawsuit against several administration administrators, blaming them for deferring the inquiry into Sharif’s shooting and forgetting to nourish updates to the family.
Kenya’s court has also discharged police lawsuits that, “The firing on Arshad Sharif’s vehicle was based on mistaken identity.”
“We were considering this car as a vehicle of abductors,” the police had claimed.
The court also summoned a complete inquiry into the collaboration behind Arshad Sharif’s killing and introduced relentless retributive measures against police and guard agents.
Published in The Tribune News
