MITHI/MIRPURKHAS: The Tharparkar district and sessions judge at Mithi on Tuesday ordered registration of an FIR against five Rangers personnel nominated as suspects in the April 7 Chhachhro firing on a jeep that left one of its occupant dead and another wounded.

Three other persons travelling in the same vehicle were detained and handed over to the Khensar police.

The affected families moved an application under Section 22-A of the criminal procedure code in the court and prayed for directives to the police to book the Rangers men.

When the application came up for hearing on Thursday, the court ordered the Khensar SHO to register an FIR against the five Rangers personnel posted at the Neblo checkpoint on the day of the incident.

The aggrieved families have nominated Mohammad Razzaq, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Khalil, Karamat Hussain and Mahar Hussain as suspects, stating that the Rangers men fired at the jeep occupants who had gone to the gaming area for hunting.

They said Mir Nasir Talpur and Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur were seriously wounded in the firing and the former succumbed to his wounds a couple of days later.

The victims’ other three companions were taken to the Khensar police station and booked in an attempted murder case, they stated, and prayed to the court to help them lodge an FIR against the Rangers men involved in the firing.

The counsel representing Rangers informed the court that the jeep trespassed into a prohibited and sensitive area close to the international border while hunting deer.

He said the Rangers men on duty signalled the jeep occupants to stop but, instead, they fired on the Rangers men. In retaliation, the Rangers also fired on the jeep.