Extrajudicial killing: SHC issues notices in case of mysterious death of MQM worker

Activist Syed Faraz Alam allegedly died due to police torture


Our Correspondent January 28, 2015
Activist Syed Faraz Alam allegedly died due to police torture. PHOTO: EXPRESS

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the provincial home secretary, Sindh IG, Korangi SSP and Khokhrapar police SHO on a petition seeking judicial inquiry into the alleged custodial death of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist.

A division bench, headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, also issued a notice to the provincial law officer to file comments by February 9.

Syed Mateen Hussain, the maternal uncle of deceased MQM activist Syed Faraz Alam, had sought a judicial inquiry into the killing. He told the two judges that police personnel had picked Alam up from his Malir residence on December 28, 2014. He claimed that the Khokhrapar police later implicated Alam in various criminal cases solely due to his political affiliation.



The petitioner said that his nephew was remanded in police custody for seven days by a judicial magistrate for further interrogation. "While he was in custody, the police subjected him to severe torture, as a result of which he suffered internal injuries and died," Hussain alleged.

He said that the authorities had assured the victim's family that action would be taken against the police personnel if they were found to be involved but they had failed to register the FIR for his death. He pleaded to the court to order a judicial probe into Alam's death and also to order the registration of an FIR against the responsible police officers.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 29th, 2015.

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