Threatening agitation: Employees Coordination Council seeks transfer of DSP

Claims the police officer harassed two nurses following the abduction of a newborn.

ABBOTABAD:

All Employees Coordination Council, Abbottabad has demanded the transfer of the DSP Cantonment within the next 24 hours over what it called the harassment of health officials at the hands of the police.

The council has also threatened to go on strike across the district in case no heed is paid, All Employees Coordination Council President Qazi Tanvir told the media on Thursday.

Tanvir said a newborn was abducted from the gyneacology ward of Women and Children Hospital, Abbotabad last week and despite the fact the some of the staff members were off-duty on the day of the incident, DSP Cantonment Khankhel Khan called two senior nurses, Shabana and Farzana, to his office on the pretext of investigation and allegedly misbehaved with them.

Tanvir claimed the nurses were harassed and the police officer also used abusive language. He said the DSP’s behaviour with the two paramedics was unlawful and derogatory.

Tanvir added a meeting of the All Employees Council was held on Wednesday where participants condemned the incident and demanded the immediate transfer of the DSP from Abbottabad. He warned they would be compelled to go on strike if no action was taken in this regard.

A newborn was abducted from the gynaecology ward of Women and Children Hospital on August 19, but later recovered from a childless woman of Banda Jalal Khan on August 26. The accused, later identified as Saima, confessed she could bear no children for the past 14 years and abducted the baby on her own with no support from the hospital staff. She told the police that she was unhappy after repeated taunts by her husband and in-laws.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 29^th, 2014.