The Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) from Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Nawab Sardar Khan Chandio, indicted last year in a triple murder case, triggered a new controversy when he pushed the hand of a policeman performing body search at the entrance of the Model Criminal Trial Court, Dadu district.
The act, caught on the camera and shared on the social media, stirred a reaction both from the police and the complainant in the triple murder, advocate Umme Rubab Chandio.
"How the politicians like him behave with the common people if they dare to push aside a cop in uniform?" she asked while talking to the media outside the court. She requested the court and the IG Sindh police Ghulam Nabi Memon to take notice, pointing out that a similar previous act of the MPA involving another cop drew no reaction from the police department.
"These feudal lords consider the body search their humiliation because they think they are above the law," she said.
"If no action is taken, the influential persons will keep humiliating the policemen."
He said he already went through one body search after which another body search was being performed by some other cop at another location of the court.
He blamed advocate Rubab for trying to politisise the issue and suggested her to stick to the criminal litigation. Moreover, the court's security in-charge, Sub-Inspector Siddiq Samejo, wrote a complaint to the judge about the issue.
He stated that the influential persons and lawmakers visiting the court resist the body searches.
The MPA and his brother MPA Nawabzada Burhan Chandio, both of whom have been elected from Kambar-Shahdadkot district, are among the accused in January, 2018, triple murder case of two brothers and their father in Mehar, Dadu.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 4th, 2023.
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