HYDERABAD, July 12: Referring to the controversy arising out of the establishment of the Qasimabad police station on the premises of a girls college, a spokesman for the Hyderabad police has said that the police station will be shifted to the Baldia police station.

In a statement issued here on Friday, the spokesman said the police did not want to occupy any place and cause inconvenience to the public.

On the other hand, a meeting of the Qasimabad taluka council has been convened on Saturday to discuss the issue.

The DPO of Hyderabad region police on Friday evening claimed to have withdrawn the police from the Government Girls’ College, Qasimabad, in the wake of public outcry over the shifting of the Qasimabad police station to the premises of the college.

Till Friday morning, however, two policemen were present at the college.

To a query by this scribe, DPO Moazzam Jah said he had asked the area police officials “not to be present” in the college premises.

The DPO claimed that the Qasimabad police station was shifted to the venue on the request of the Qasimabad taluka Nazim, Noor Mohammad Shoro, and residents of the area.

He claimed Shoro and some area residents had requested to the Sindh education minister that since the Qasimabad police station was being shifted to the Baldia police station, the same should be set up in the “vacant bungalow” of the Qasimabad college.

DPO Jah claimed the minister had accepted the request and allowed the police to set up the police station there and added that the IGP of Sindh asked him to secure possession of the building.

Before the possession was to be obtained, some social welfare activists began opposing the police initiative to set up the police station in the girls college.

The DPO claimed that it was not a college but a bungalow, allotted to principal of the Qasimabad Boys’ College, that had been lying vacant.

However, the bungalow has been turned into a girls’ college and half a dozen students have obtained admission in the subject of home economics.

The Qasimabad police station, established in 1990, kept shifting from one place to another place for non availability of its own building.

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