'Turf' war: 12 Punjab policemen sent to jail for 14-days

They unlawfully arrested three men in Sukkur without informing local police

SUKKUR: A dozen Punjab policemen, including three ASIs, were sent to prison by a district and sessions court on Monday on a 14-day judicial remand.

The police officials were arrested on Sunday by the Sukkur police for picking up three men from Airport Road in Sukkur without informing the relevant police station.

According to the police, all the officials of Punjab’s Kot Sabzal police station - ASIs Muhammad Irfan, Shakeel Ahmed and Kaleemullah and police constables Adnan, Abdul Hadi, Muhammad Kashif, Imran, Naseer Ahmed, Hafiz Abid Ali, Muhammad Saleem, Jameel and Zaheer - were produced in the district and sessions court, Sukkur.



On Sunday, FIR No 07/2017 under Section 365 of the Pakistan Penal Code was lodged against them at the Airport police station in Sukkur. DSP Mehr Nasir and SHO Jam Aijaz of the Kot Sabzal police station have also been nominated in the FIR but have not been arrested as yet.

 The incident

The 12 police officials of the Kot Sabzal police station, district Rahim Yar Khan, conducted a raid on Airport Road in Sukkur and arrested three persons - Sharif Khoso, Farid Khoso and Abdullah Jatoi.

The local police was informed of the incident and arrested the 12 men. They were locked up at the Airport police station and an FIR was lodged against them.

The arrested police officials in their statements said that Rao Shakir, a builder from Sukkur, had lodged an FIR at the Kot Sabzal police station against Sharif Khoso, Farid Khoso and Abdullah Jatoi, due to which they arrested them.



According to Sukkur SSP Amjad Ahmed Shaikh, neither had the Punjab police officials informed the police station before arresting the men, nor did they abide by the required formalities before taking them away.

They should have informed the area police before arresting the men and then should have made an entry in our records after arresting them, but they failed to do so, he explained.