Report on death of judge Rafaqat Awan released

ISLAMABAD: Additional Sessions Judge Rafaqat Ahmad Khan Awan (Shaheed) received bullets from the official revolver No.522228D issued on 23.01.2014 to his gunman Constable Babar Hussain, C/4311, Security Division, Islamabad, said a police report on Saturday.
The investigation of tragic incident of F-8 Kutchehri (district courts) is underway, under different teams of police and the Joint Investigation Team (JIT).
According to initial evidence, Rafaqat Awan was martyred inside chamber behind his courtroom, where his blood was found on the floor, with no signs of dripping blood anywhere else.
There is no evidence of any distant gunshot of Kalashnikov 7.62 mm (used by terrorists) in the courtroom, on the door of the chamber or any place/wall inside the chamber, the report said.
It further said there was evidence of contact shot (with gun-powder blackening) on the door of the chamber, which suggested a small entry and not a 7.62 mm bullet (Kalashnikov).
"There is also evidence of another shot of revolver on the wooden wall of the chamber fired from inside; slug has been recovered from the scene.
"There is corresponding evidence of two shots on the clothes of the Shaheed (martyred) ASJ. The entry hole on the vest clearly shows blackening, which proves a near-contact shot from a small arm and not a 7.62 mm bullet (Kalashnikov)," the report added.
The post mortem report also showed two entry wounds on the body of the Shaheed ASJ, one on the left forearm, 2x1 cm, (it caused two injuries) and another on the left side of chest (that proved fatal). This fatal fire-arm on chest with "blackening & charring marks" was a near-contact shot. The post-mortem was conducted by a board of three medico-legal experts.
"This medico-legal evidence (entry-wound size coupled with "blackening & charring marks") also suggests that gun-shots were a near-contact shot from a small arm and not a 7.62 mm bullet (Kalashnikov)," the report added.
The corroborative evidence mentioned above clearly showed that there was proof of only four gun-shots fired inside the chamber. Three empty shells and a slug (lead) had been recovered, and the official revolver from which they were fired, matched. The same were taken into custody and dispatched for FSL examination from NFSA.
The gunman Babar Hussain, C/4311, who was deputed on the written request of ASJ-VI, Rafaqat Ahmad Khan Awan (Shaheed), vide memo No.4, dated 15/01/2014, has been formally arrested due to the above irrefutable evidence and his three-day physical remand obtained from the Anti- Terrorism Court, the report said.