SUKKUR, Feb 13: The district and sessions judge of Ghotki on Saturday ordered registration of a case against four policemen, including an SHO, on the charge of torturing two villagers.

The court also ordered treatment of the tortured villagers, Jamaluddin Chachar and Fakir Mohammad, at the Ghotki Taluka Hospital. The villagers had filed an application in the court of district and sessions judge Abdul Rasool Memon, stating that police personnel of the Sarhad police station arrested them without any reason and kept them in illegal confinement.

They also accused police torturing them due to which an arm of Mr Jamaluddin was fractured. Meanwhile, the City ASP on Sunday sent head constable Rab Nawaz and three policemen, including Asghar and Ghulam, behind the bars for alleged negligence in duty.

A heroine addict stole a rifle from a police picket at the Sukkur bypass as police on duty had gone to a nearby hotel. Later, a traffic police arrested the addict while passing near the Public School on the Military Road and recovered the rifle from him.

teachers suspended: The EDO, education, Ghotki, on Saturday suspended 15 teachers during his visits to various schools in Daharki, Ghotki and Mirpur Mathelo.

EDO Prof Asghar Mujahid suspended the teachers, including Mohammad Ramzan, Khalid Hussain, Ibrahim Shah, Manzoor Ahmad, Madam Naseem Abbasi, Abdul Hafeez Channa, Qazi Akram Ali, Madam Jamshaid Channa, Zarina Channa and Shabana Mirani, for being absent from duty.

WOMAN KILLED: A woman, Sundari, wife of Wazir Ahmad Channa was killed and her four-year-old son, Jawed Channa, was injured when the roof of her house collapsed in the Mohammad Ishaq Channa village, Mirpur Buriro police station jurisdiction, on Saturday night.