He said, he said: Military cadet allegedly tortured by Haripur police

On the day of the attack, two policemen were also beaten up.

HARIPUR:

A military cadet was severely injured and had to be hospitalised after an alleged beating from two policemen on Monday afternoon. A complaint has been lodged against the men, The Express Tribune learnt on Tuesday.

The police recorded statements of Hamad Hasan, son of assistant professor Mazhar Ali Shah and a cadet at the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul. Hasan said he was on leave and had gone to pick his mother, a lecturer at Government Girls Degree College Tarbela, when the suspects rode up to him. They were identified as Constable Muhammad Jamil and Constable Asad Waheed.



Hasan claimed the men asked him why he was standing outside the girls’ college and despite showing the policemen his identity card, the constables started beating Hasan up and left him injured.

Hasan was taken to the Combined Military Hospital Tarbela for treatment. When he reached the Ghazi police station to register an FIR, the police did not do so immediately. After an intervention from officials at the military academy, the police filed a complaint and started an inquiry but still did not register an FIR.



Meanwhile, the same evening, two policemen, Muhammad Zubair and Shahid Ali, were injured by unidentified men within the limits of Ghazi police station. They were patrolling Ghazi Bazaar when a dozen unidentified men stopped them near Khalo Mosque on Tarbela Road and started thrashing them.

According to DSP Ghazi Salman Khan, they were taken to Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad.

Khan said an investigation was underway and they had not determined if both attacks were related.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 27^th, 2013.