KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has directed the Sindh police to appoint a police officer not below the rank of deputy inspector general of police to carry out investigation into killing of an alleged missing man in an encounter with paramilitary troops. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui while disposing of the petition ordered that investigation report be filed within three months. The court was hearing the petition filed by Syed Shah Feroze Ahmed Qadri who sought whereabouts of his two sons. During previous hearing, the court was told that one of two missing sons of the petitioner was killed in an encounter with Rangers personnel. Petitioner had submitted that his two sons- Ijtaba Ahmed and Isbah Ahmed- were well educated and would deliver lectures at the University of Karachi. They both had gone missing in 2015 and since then there was no clue to their whereabouts. The investigating officer told the court that Ijtaba Ahmed, one of alleged missing petitioner’s sons was killed in an encounter in February 2017 within the limits of Shah Latif police station. His dead body was handed over to the petitioner. The judges had expressed serious concern over the killing of the petitioner’s son in the encounter and ordered the LEAs to recover the other son before he is killed in an encounter.