Manhandling: Two policemen assaulted
The men kept the officials hostage for hours, beating them black and blue, injuring them.
HARIPUR:
Villagers manhandled two policemen when they allegedly tried to pick up a man without any arrest warrant in Hattar, reported locals.
However, the police contested the claim; maintaining that the man was a drug peddler. Haripur police station constable Asad Saeed stated in his complaint he was conducting a routine patrol with another constable, Riffat Ali, when they came across a man carrying narcotics. When Saeed tried to arrest the accused, five of his accomplices – Rukhsar Shah, Waqar Shah and Goga Shah, and two unidentified men – took the policemen to a hujra at gunpoint. The men kept the officials hostage for hours, beating them black and blue, injuring them. After a tip-off from locals, the SHO raided the hujra and recovered his subordinates, who had been injured. The five men had fled.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2013.
Villagers manhandled two policemen when they allegedly tried to pick up a man without any arrest warrant in Hattar, reported locals.
However, the police contested the claim; maintaining that the man was a drug peddler. Haripur police station constable Asad Saeed stated in his complaint he was conducting a routine patrol with another constable, Riffat Ali, when they came across a man carrying narcotics. When Saeed tried to arrest the accused, five of his accomplices – Rukhsar Shah, Waqar Shah and Goga Shah, and two unidentified men – took the policemen to a hujra at gunpoint. The men kept the officials hostage for hours, beating them black and blue, injuring them. After a tip-off from locals, the SHO raided the hujra and recovered his subordinates, who had been injured. The five men had fled.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2013.