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TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 30: The District Public Safety Commission (DPSC) will probe police torture on a Faisalabad Government College University lecturer Chaudhry Shabbir Ahmad, his brother and father by Nawan Lahore police former SHO Nasir Nawaz.
Commission chairman Rai Ziaullah Khan told newsmen here on Thursday that the inquiry would be conducted by its members Ali Akhtar Dhillon and Mian Naseer Ahmad advocates.
Police had arrested the lecturer, his brother and father in a timber theft case and had undressed and tortured them in the police station.
INVESTIGATION: A police team started interrogating alleged Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activist Saeed Ahmad Gujjar alias Commando after obtaining his physical remand for four days from a local judicial magistrate on Thursday.
Saeed had been declared a proclaimed offender. He was wanted by Rajana police in an illegal arms case.
Rajana police had raided Chak 335-GB on June 26, 1998, and recovered huge quantity of arms, including grenades and rocket launchers, and arrested a Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) activist, Khalid Mahboob Dogar. He told police that he got arms with the help of Saeed.
Dogar, his accomplices Ashraf Jat of Khanewal, Abdul Ghafoor and Farooq Mughal of Chak 358-GB Mughli were tried by a court and acquitted.
Saeed had reportedly fled to Afghanistan and had returned after the fall of Taliban.
BURIAL: Five people who died on Wednesday in an accident near Manga Mandi were buried on Thursday in their native graveyard here.
They were going to Lahore to receive a relative coming from England.
Masood Iqbal and Muhammad Rafiq were buried in Chak 157-GB while wagon owner Akhtar Husain and his driver Dilshad Husain were laid to rest at Gojra and in Chak 287-JB Pilasour, respectively. Muhammad Ramzan was buried in Chak 277.
Eight other people who sustained injuries in the accident are still under treatment in the Jinnah Hospital, Lahore.
