Man accuses cops of kidnapping him

Mansoorabad police register FIR against several colleagues

KURIANWALA:

The SHO of Mansoorabad Police Station registered an FIR against a number of policemen on an application filed by Mohammad Irfan, a resident of Muzaffargarh.

The complainant alleges in the FIR that he had been kidnapped by “10 police officers” from outside a police station in, what the complainant said, retaliation for a case he had earlier registered against the police.

Mohammad Irfan told the police that he worked in a dyeing factory. On his application a case had been registered against the former SHO of Mansoorabad, Shahid Sarwar Alvi.

He said he was called to the police station on December 12, 2019 for investigation in the case.

Mohammad Irfan told the police that as soon as he came out of the police station, “ASIs Raffaqat Alvi and Rana Nawaz, Constables Imran Bhatta and Talha” and some other people kidnapped him at gunpoint and took him to an unknown location, where ASI Raffaqat Ali tried to pressure him into withdrawing the case registered against SHO Shahid Sarwar Alvi.

The complainant alleged that his “kidnappers” took his gold ring, Rs275,600 in cash, a watch, a mobile phone and his original identity card.

Mohammad Irfan told the police that the suspects roped his neck and hung him from the ceiling and smacked his legs with sticks. He said that the suspects had also stripped him to humiliate him.

Mohammad Irfan further stated that due to severe torture by the accused, one of his right-hand fingers got fractured.

Mohammad Irfan alleged that ASI Raffaqat Alvi later contacted his (Irfan’s) brother through his mobile phone and demanded a ransom of Rs1 million for his release. The complainant told the police that ASI Raffaqat Alvi warned his brother that if he didn’t pay the ransom money, they would have Mohammad Irfan killed in a fake encounter.

The complainant told the police that his brother accepted the demand for ransom and paid the accused the money they had asked for.

Mohammad Irfan told the police that though the suspects’ demand had been met, yet they had him implicated in a false case and produced him in the court of a magistrate.

“Seeing my physical condition, the magistrate immediately ordered the police to have my medical done,” said Mohammad Irfan.

The complainant said that the Provincial Medical Board confirmed that he had been subjected to torture and that his right-hand finger got fractured.

The SHO of Mansoorabad registered a case against the accused on court order.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 24^th, 2022.