On eleventh September 2012, a fire broke out in an articles of clothing industrial facility in Baldia Town that murdered 289 individuals and seriously harmed in excess of 600 individuals. The JIT report that has researched this episode is at long last being discharged by the Government of Sindh. The JIT, in the wake of holding six meetings in the production line, cautiously inspecting the remnants, and gathering records of observers including the workers of the industrial facility, has invalidated the past examinations and inferred that fire wasn’t a mishap yet a conscious demonstration of psychological warfare.
As indicated by the report, the fire was unnatural and had different roots at the same time according to measurable reports. The report additionally announced refusal to pay blackmail cash to MQM as a thought process in this dread movement. The fire was begun in the plant for non-installment of Rs. 200 million as blackmail cash.
As per the passages from the JIT, report by crime scene investigation group supported the observer that it was in reality incendiarism and there were different wellsprings of fire.
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As per report, MQM’s Hamad Siddiqui and Rehman Bhola requested coercion cash from the industrial facility proprietor yet the underlying examination had not referenced about the blackmail cash anyplace in the FIR or in the examination. The report likewise incorporated the declaration of denounced Rizwan Qureshi in which he uncovered that Hammad Sidique, a MQM party high official and accountable for the Karachi Tanzeemi Committee (KTC), requested a measure of Rs. 200 million from the proprietor of Ali Enterprise through his frontman Rehman Bhola in 2012. Notwithstanding, the processing plant proprietor went to Asghar Baig, MQM division responsible for Baldia town around then, and made him mindful of the interest. Asghar Baig alongside his sibling Majid Baid organized a gathering between the plant proprietors and Hammad Sidique. The gathering was additionally gone to by Farooq Saleem, joint responsible for KTC. The production line proprietors wouldn’t pay the coercion cash and traded brutal words with MQM pioneers.
The JIT report additionally discusses the imperatives and difficulties it confronted while completing the examination. It says that the JIT was comprised effectively exceptionally late , around more than two years after the episode and this made the criminal site get bargained which made it difficult for the group to gather confirmations. The report likewise censures the past examination led and it was done on imperfect meanings and assumptions according to the report.
The report additionally incorporates an onlooker account which tells that not exclusively was the production line torched the processing plant with laborers inside, they likewise ensured no one could escape by locking the entryways. While finishing up the report, the JIT has suggested pulling back the past FIRs and documenting of new FIRs under psychological warfare arrangements and incorporate the names of Rehman Bhola, Hamad Siddiqui, Zubair Charia, Umar Hassan Qadari, Dr. Abdul Sattar, Ali Hassan Qadri, Iqbal Abid Khanum and four obscure people in the new FIR.
The Baldia Town production line fire is presumably the goriest occurrence in the rough history of Karachi. 259 honest specialist lost their lives in this fire related accident while 50 were harmed.
