Police torture: Who says it’s just a game?
Cop breaks in and tortures woman, her sons after his son lost cricket match.
DERA GHAZI KHAN:
A police official broke into a house and cut off a woman’s hair and beat her children on Friday night.
According to residents in the area, a Taunsa police official broke into a house on Friday night and beat up three children and chopped a woman’s hair after her children fought with his son a day ago.
“Her boys were playing cricket in the street and his son ended up quarrelling over a wicket,” said an eyewitness Rahman.
“Parents of several children resolved the matter and it was settled.
The next day the police official broke into the boys’ house and beat them severely,” he added.
According to local residents, constable Mushtaq and his friend Asghar broke into Asghar Sanjarani’s house and tortured his children and cut his wife Hasina Mai’s hair.
“He kept saying that I should be grateful he didn’t kill me after my children quarreled with his son. It was completely innocent! A group of boys were playing cricket in the street and they fought over whether or not his son was out,” Hasina Mai told police.
Eyewitness Abdullah Haroon said that constable Mushtaq’s son Waqas, 11, had begun beating up Asghar’s son’s Ali, 9, and Bilal, 12, after they told him he had been bowled.
“The next day the boy brought his father and they beat up the two boys in their own home with cricket bats,” Haroon said.
Saddar police has registered a case and shifted Hasina Mai and her son’s to the THQ hospital. Doctors at the hospital said that the two boys had been beaten severely and that Bilal had three broken ribs. “We have filed a medical certificate stating that the boys were flogged with a cricket bat,” Dr Shahram Ishtiaq Haq said. “Hasina Bibi’s teeth were broken and her jaw has been dislocated,” he added.
Saddar police has registered a case on Hasina and Aghar’s complaint.
“Just because he is a police constable doesn’t mean he can torture us because his son lost in a game of cricket!” he added.
District Police Officer (DPO) Malik Tassaduq Awan has suspended the constable and ordered an investigation. Police officials said that they were questioning eyewitnesses about the incident. “So far we know that it was a minor squabble over a game of cricket but that the constable allegedly sought revenge on behalf of his son,” Awan said.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 20th, 2011.
A police official broke into a house and cut off a woman’s hair and beat her children on Friday night.
According to residents in the area, a Taunsa police official broke into a house on Friday night and beat up three children and chopped a woman’s hair after her children fought with his son a day ago.
“Her boys were playing cricket in the street and his son ended up quarrelling over a wicket,” said an eyewitness Rahman.
“Parents of several children resolved the matter and it was settled.
The next day the police official broke into the boys’ house and beat them severely,” he added.
According to local residents, constable Mushtaq and his friend Asghar broke into Asghar Sanjarani’s house and tortured his children and cut his wife Hasina Mai’s hair.
“He kept saying that I should be grateful he didn’t kill me after my children quarreled with his son. It was completely innocent! A group of boys were playing cricket in the street and they fought over whether or not his son was out,” Hasina Mai told police.
Eyewitness Abdullah Haroon said that constable Mushtaq’s son Waqas, 11, had begun beating up Asghar’s son’s Ali, 9, and Bilal, 12, after they told him he had been bowled.
“The next day the boy brought his father and they beat up the two boys in their own home with cricket bats,” Haroon said.
Saddar police has registered a case and shifted Hasina Mai and her son’s to the THQ hospital. Doctors at the hospital said that the two boys had been beaten severely and that Bilal had three broken ribs. “We have filed a medical certificate stating that the boys were flogged with a cricket bat,” Dr Shahram Ishtiaq Haq said. “Hasina Bibi’s teeth were broken and her jaw has been dislocated,” he added.
Saddar police has registered a case on Hasina and Aghar’s complaint.
“Just because he is a police constable doesn’t mean he can torture us because his son lost in a game of cricket!” he added.
District Police Officer (DPO) Malik Tassaduq Awan has suspended the constable and ordered an investigation. Police officials said that they were questioning eyewitnesses about the incident. “So far we know that it was a minor squabble over a game of cricket but that the constable allegedly sought revenge on behalf of his son,” Awan said.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 20th, 2011.