Record seized; injured woman taken for questioning
Bivek Mathur
JAMMU, Sept 20: The Crime Branch Headquarters has constituted a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) ranked officer-led Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the killing of a woman from Mumbai by an unidentified gunman in the Sainik Colony area here last month, and injuries to two other women.
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The six-member panel will probe into the circumstances leading to the murder of the woman, and the suspicious role of three police officers suspended in connection with the crime-Inspector Deepak Pathania, and PSIs Wasim Bhatti and Rohit Sharma- if any, to pass off the incident as a road accident.
Meanwhile, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Jammu, Joginder Singh, has attached the suspended police officers with Regional Police Headquarters Jammu (RPHQ).
“They shall deploy in DPL Jammu immediately and report to RPHQ Jammu on September 20,” read an order issued by SSP Jammu today, which further said that the suspended officers will remain attached with RPHQ Jammu during the period of their suspension.
The SSP Jammu also appointed two police officers-SI Noor Hussain and ASI Devinder Kumar-as in-charges of the Police Station Channi Himmat and Police Post Sainik Colony with immediate effect till further orders.
Police sources said the SIT was ordered to be constituted yesterday (September 19), but its members were decided today after IGP Crime J&K, Sujit Kumar, held detailed deliberations with his team in Jammu.
Following the meeting, they said, the SIT members straightway proceeded to Police Station Channi Himmat, where they were officially handed over the entire record related to the case by the teams of Police Station Channi Himmat and Police Post Sainik Colony.
Police sources further said one of the team members also got Fatima Akil, the sister of the deceased woman, Mehjabeen Akil Sheikh from West Malad, Mumbai, discharged from Government Medical College Jammu, where she was admitted with injuries.
They said she was taken for questioning related to the firing incident on August 21 in the physiotherapy centre in the Sainik Colony area, where some suspicious and unfair activities were also going on for some time under the nose of the suspended police officers.
Pertinently, an unidentified gunman fired several rounds inside a physiotherapy center on August 21, 2025, resulting in injuries to three women-Mehjabeen Akil Sheikh, her sister Fatima, both residents of West Malad, Mumbai, and one Jaspreet Kour of Ludhiana, who has been missing since the incident.
Following the incident, they were admitted to JK Medicity Hospital by two individuals, with a claim that they suffered injuries in an accident on Ring Road in Bari Brahmana area.
However, they later took the victims to ASCOMS Batra against medical advice, and later to GMC Jammu, where one of them, Mehjabeen Akil Sheikh, succumbed to her injuries on August 29.
Initially, police initiated inquest proceedings into the matter.
However, later, when subsequent investigation confirmed that the trio was hurt by firearm injury and not in a road accident, the police registered a murder case after one of them succumbed at the hospital.
Taking cognisance of the alleged lapses in the investigation, three police officers were suspended by the senior police officers yesterday on September 19.
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