HYDERABAD: Harassment: inquiry against SHO ordered
By Our Correspondent
HYDERABAD, July 11: The District and sessions judge (DSJ), Hyderabad, Parkash Lal M. Ambwani, who is also the director of the Human Rights Board, has directed the AIG, Hyderabad region police, to inquire into a complain against the Makki Shah SHO.
The order was issued on a complaint of a woman, Laiqa Begum, that the SHO, Makki Shah police, Amir Jafri, was harassing her family and patronizing gamblers and drug pushers.
The woman filed the application before the court after her son was beaten allegedly by some gamblers in front of her house when he objected to their activities.
She stated the respondent, Mohammad Atiq, was running a gambling den in the Shah Faisal Colony and he was also involved in the business of narcotics. She added the Makki Shah police actively provided protection to Atiq’s unlawful activities.
She stated she rented out a portion of her house to a police constable, Abdul Bari, which annoyed Atiq because he thought the presence of a policeman in the area might affect his business.
Laiqa said Atiq threatened her and her son, Abdul Ghaffar, on June 12, asking them to get the house vacated from the police constable or prepare themselves for facing the music.
The next day, she said, the respondent came with 12 or 13 miscreants who beat his son and abused other members of her family. She alleged Atiq threatened to kidnap her daughter in case she did not get the house vacated.
Some neighbours, including mother of Atiq, intervened and rescued her son, the woman said.
She said for the last five days police personnel from the Makki Shah police station were visiting her house to arrest her on the basis of a fake application, filed by Atiq.
She stated a day earlier, Shahid, a police constable of said police station, visited her house and tried to serve a notice on behalf of the SHO although it was not signed by him. She prayed the court to restrain the SHO from harassing her family and take action against Atiq for his illegal activities.
The court had issued notice to the SHO on the application, asking him to make inquiries.
When the matter was taken up by the DSJ, the SHO, who was earlier sitting with Atiq in the court, tried to produce some women of the same locality as witnesses to contradict the applicant’s claim.
Mr Ambwani, however, snubbed him, saying he had asked him to make inquiries not to produce witnesses.
He referred the matter to the AIG, Abdur Rauf Yousufzai, for conducting inquiry himself or through the DPO, Hyderabad, Moazzam Jah Ansari. Five MQM men acquitted in violence case
ACQUITTED: The seventh additional district judge, Hyderabad, here on Thursday acquitted former Muttahida MNA Kanwar Naveed Jameel, former MPAs, Salahuddin and Zafar Rajput, and other party activists in an arson and violence case.
The charges against the accused in the case, lodged with the Pinyari police, were that in 1995 during a strike call they opened fire on police.
The charge-sheet included the names of former MNA, Kanwar Naveed, former MPAs, Salahuddin, Mubeen Sheikh and Mabqool Qureshi.
Qureshi and Sheikh are still absconding whereas others obtained pre-arrest bail.
