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HYDERABAD, Jan 12: The Sindh High Court’s Hyderabad circuit bench on Monday restrained the police from harassing the family of a resident of Kotri.
The court had issued notices to the additional DPO, Kotri, the SHO of Kotri police station, the in-charge of the Kotri police checkpoint, and the additional attorney-general, Sindh on a petition filed by a resident of Kotri, Ali.
The petitioner had challenging his forced eviction from his house in Gharibabad Colony.
The petitioner had stated that he had been living in Gharibabad Colony, situated near Bihar Colony since 1996 but one of the respondent police officials wanted to evict him from his house forcibly.
He added that he had approached the Nazim of the union council of Khuda Ki Basti, who had fixed the matter for hearing on May 2, 2002, but since then the respondent had been harassing his family.
He said that he had also filed a civil suit before a civil judge in this context.
He said that police had conducted raid at his residence without any lawful authority and search warrants.
The petitioner accused the police officials of maltreating the womenfolk in his home before arresting his father-in-law, Mohammad Suleman.
He stated that the in-charge of the police checkpoint, Gulshan-e-Shahbaz, had threatened of dire consequences if he did not vacate his house, adding that he would be implicated in false cases.
He prayed the court to direct the additional DPO to investigate the matter and restrain policemen from harassing the petitioner.
COMMENTS SOUGHT: The circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday directed the additional attorney general, Sindh, Masood A. Noorani, to file comments of the TPO, Hala, Ali Sher Jakhrani, the SHO, Hala police station, Abdul Sattar Memon in a constitutional petition filed by a woman, Zarina.
The petitioner has prayed the court to direct the respondent SHO to register her FIR and direct the Regional Police Officer to appoint a God-fearing police official not below the rank of DSP to conduct an impartial inquiry.
She requested the court to direct police not to arrest her husband and sons in false cases besides urging the RPO to suspend the TPO, Hala.
The petitioner has accused the respondent police officials of arresting her son, Shahnawaz, and abusing other family members after scaling the walls of her house on the midnight of Oct 25, 2002.
She said that the respondents, at that time, were accompanied by 20 other policemen.
She also accused the police of resorting to firing besides taking away four of her buffaloes.
She stated that the police had implicated her son in a false case and had subsequently challaned him in the said matter.
She said that she had moved an application in the court of the civil judge and the FCM for the return of the buffaloes but the police had shifted them to elsewhere when they had come to know about her application.
She said that she had gone to the police station to lodge n FIR on Oct 26, 2002 but the police, instead of registering her FIR, had locked her up. She added that she had been released after the sunset.
She claimed that she had fallen ill because of constant fear and mental torture.
Accusing the TPO, Hala, of corruption and dishonesty, she said that the majority of residents of Hala were fed up with him.
She said that her husband had earlier been challaned in different false cases of narcotics. But now he had been acquitted in the cases, therefore, the police should not be allowed to call him a narcotic peddler.
