Police brutality?: ‘SHO told me to admit to hidden weapons’

Magistrate orders police to get Nazir Hussain examined.


Kashif Zafar April 24, 2013
Complainant claimed that both his legs were broken from the beating. PHOTO: FILE

BAHAWALPUR:


An area magistrate ordered the Rukanpur police on Wednesday to arrange medico-legal examination of a man, allegedly tortured by the police.


A complaint was filed by Nazar Hussain, a resident of Chak 62-NP, saying that a police team, headed by Rukanpur Station House Officer Rana Riaz Ahmad, had raided his house on Sunday night saying that Hussain had hidden illegal weapons at his house.

He said the policemen, including Assistant Sub Inspector Jam Ahmad Yar, had searched his house, but did not find anything. He said they then took him to the police station “for questioning”.

He said there they tied him and beat him up with sticks. He said the SHO tried to make him to confess that he had hidden the weapons. He said both his legs were broken from the beating.

He said his family and some other relatives kept visiting the police station to request the police to let him go. On Monday night, he said, he was handed over to his family. They took him to a hospital.

On Wednesday, a complaint was filed before Magistrate Nadeem Ahmad on his behalf. The magistrate ordered the police to get him medically examined from Shaikh Zayed Hospital in Rahim Yar Khan.

He said his family also met District Police Officer Sohail Habib Tajik on Tuesday.
The DPO told The Express Tribune that he had ordered an inquiry into the matter.
DPO Tajik said strict action would be taken against the SHO and his team if proven guilty.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 25th, 2013.

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