Demanding justice: Man files petition against police brutality

Court summons SHO on June 23 for his comments

ABBOTABAD: A man has filed a petition in court against policemen who allegedly thrashed and injured him without any reason in Abbottabad.

The court ordered Havelian SHO to appear and give his side of the story.

Waheed filed a petition in the court of an Abbottabad district judge through his counsel, Advocate Aftab Khan, on Thursday.

Aftab Khan told the court that on June 14, the petitioner was busy with routine work at the Havelian Suzuki van terminal when a police mobile stopped near him. Since the weather was hot, he covered his face with a piece of cloth.

When the policeman asked Waheed to remove the cloth, he followed their command but covered up again.

Over this, the cops were enraged and started thrashing him, the petitioner’s counsel said.



Aftab Khan added they took Waheed to Havelian police station where they assaulted him for over five hours.

He said the petitioner fell unconscious and was shifted to Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Hospital Abbottabad.



However, doctors refused to treat the petitioner as the perpetrators were policemen, he said. He told the court Waheed tried to lodge an FIR against the policemen at Havelian police station, but the SHO refused.

Therefore, the petitioner approached the court and filed a petition under Section 22-A of the CrPc. The court summoned the SHO for his comments
on June 23.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 17^th, 2016.