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SUKKUR, Nov 11: On the order of the district and sessions judge, the Ghotki raid commissioner, Faiz Mohammad Memon, who is also judicial magistrate, conducted a raid at the Ghotki police station and recovered four illegally detained people from its lock-up on Tuesday.
The names of the four were ascertained as Anwar Ali Leghari, Mushtaq Ahmed Leghari, Noor Ahmed Leghari and Hazoor Bux Leghari. All were being kept in illegal confinement since the last four days without any FIR being registered against them.
After the recovery of the detainees, the judicial magistrate directed the SHO, Ghotki police station, to appear before the court on Wednesday to explain why he had kept four innocent persons in the lock-up.
A man, Abdul Wahid, had filed an application in the sessions court, Ghotki, in which he stated that his relatives were arrested by the police some four days back and they were being kept in illegal confinement.
On this, the district and sessions judge ordered that a raid be conducted at the police station and the four men be set free if they were not involved in any case.
MAN KILLED: A man, Ehsan Ali Shah, resident of Colpur, Balochistan, slipped from the foot-board of the Peshawar-bound Abaseen Express in Rohri on Tuesday and died when he fell in front of a passing train on the parallel tracks.
FLOUR SHORTAGE: The district coordination officer, Sukkur, Mohammad Mubeen Ahmed Khan, held a meeting with representatives of the Floor Mills Association, shopkeepers and food department officials regarding the shortage of flour at his office on Tuesday.
The deputy director, Food, Abdul Majeed, said that there was no shortage of wheat in Sukkur region and 110,000 wheat sacks would be given to the floor mills throughout the region during Ramazan.
He said that 20 stalls had been set up at various places in Sukkur city for purchasing flour.
The DCO, Sukkur, warned the shopkeepers to avoid hoarding flour for making undue profits, failing which drastic legal action would be taken against them.
