Retired SHO alleges torture by son, brothers

Constable put under quarter guard for torturing his father

HYDERABAD:

District police chief SSP Adeel Chandio has suspended police constable Shahid Patafi and ordered him to serve 14 days under quarter guard following a complaint lodged by his father, retired SHO Ibrahim Patafi. The disciplinary action came after Ibrahim accused his son and brothers of subjecting him to violence over property disputes.

According to the district police spokesperson, the SSP is empowered to place any officer under quarter guard for up to two weeks in response to complaints. Constable Shahid, posted at Paban police check post, was punished under these powers.

Seventy-two-year-old Ibrahim, once known as a tough cop feared by criminals in Hyderabad, appeared at the Hyderabad Press Club earlier this week to publicly accuse his family of dispossessing him of property and subjecting him to repeated assaults. He alleged that his brothers Abdul Rahman and Abdul Ghafoor, along with sons Shahid and Zahid, had seized his house and thrown him out, leaving him homeless.

Ibrahim further claimed that despite lodging an FIR, DSP Hali Road Ghulam Mujtaba Sheikh mistreated him and sided with his opponents. He recounted that during a visit to his native village in Tando Allahyar, his brothers allegedly summoned SHO Bakera Ali Bakhsh Shah, who detained him and later abandoned him on Mirpurkhas Road at night.

Suffering from heart disease and fitted with five stents, Ibrahim said his family aimed to kill him and had already taken everything he owned; now eyeing his pension. "I served the police for 40 years, yet today I am begging for justice on the streets," he lamented.