Inquiry into trader’s allegations ordered

SP to look into charges of kidnapping of citizen by police personnel

DIJKOT:

The City Police Officer, Ghulam Mubashir Mekan, has ordered the SP of Iqbal Town to inquire into the allegations leveled by a trader in which he had accused some police personnel of having him “kidnapped, tortured, kept in custody for three days and deprived of his money”.

Muhammad Hayat, a resident of Landi Kotal and a mobile phone dealer, stated in his complaint, which he lodged at the D-Type Colony Police Station, that he had been in the business of buying and selling mobile phones in Kachehri Bazaar for the last three years. Rana Shehzad, who was working on a mobile phone in Kachehri Bazaar, had called him at 8 pm on February 21 and said that some mobile phone equipment had arrived.

“You come and take it,” the complainant stated. “I arrived at Satiana Road with an amount of Rs510,500,” said Muhammad Hayat.

He alleged that there were “police officers, Faisal and Imtiaz”, who were in plain clothes and “they made me sit in a car and drove me to an unknown location where I was tortured by police for three days”.

Meanwhile, “the SHO of D-Type Colony, Hamad Yousaf, came and asked, ‘How much money do you have?’ I told him that I had an amount of Rs510,500”, said the complainant.

“The SHO returned Rs250,000 to me and released me on February 23, 2022 at 2:00 am but took the rest of my money as a bribe,” alleged Hayat in his complaint.

He had also accused the police of having tortured him.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 1^st, 2022.