Out of bounds: Police break teen’s ankle

Ghotki SSP orders DSP Mirpur Mathelo to conduct an inquiry and submit a report.

SUKKUR: Fahad Hussain Gabol, a resident of Mir Khan Gabol Village, was waiting for his surgery in a private hospital in Larkana on Wednesday, after Mirpur Mathelo police allegedly tortured him and broke his leg on Tuesday. 

While talking to The Express Tribune¸ Jawed Gabol, the victim’s brother, said that Fahad was standing outside the National Database and Registration Authority office in Mirpur Mathelo when two policemen, Ghulam Mustafa Soomro and Altaf Shah, reportedly came out of their mobile van and asked Fahad to prove his identity. “Fahad told them that he was a resident of Mir Khan Gabol and a student of class XI, but the policemen forcibly reached into his pocket and took out Rs1,500 in cash and his mobile phone.”

Jawed added that when his brother resisted, three more policemen, including Zafar Haiderani, approached him and all of them started beating him, and ultimately broke his ankle.

The policemen then reportedly contacted Fahad’s maternal uncle, Mir Mohammad Gabol, a police constable by profession, and told him that his nephew fell and broke his leg and had been shifted to the Civil Hospital Mirpur Mathelo.

“However, they just threw my brother outside the hospital’s emergency ward and left,” claimed Jawed.

The victim’s family went to the police station to lodge an FIR against the policemen, but SHO Abdul Ali Pitafi reportedly refused to register their complaint.

However, Ghotki SSP Mazhar Nawaz Shaikh ordered DSP Mirpur Mathelo Fida Hussain Chandio to conduct an inquiry and submit a report within 48 hours.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 14^th, 2012.