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LARKANA, July 13: The Naudero police used batons and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the protesters who had blocked the road and arrested four people on Wednesday. People hailing from ‘Ganhwar Bhatti’ village held a demonstration alleging that the police had lodged a fake FIR regarding the murder of Wazeer Shah. They blocked the Larkana-Sukkur road with the tree trunk and burnt tyres.
They alleged that the police had registered FIR wherein Khadim Kookari, the friend of the deceased, was shown as the main accused.
Police officials denying the Charges, maintained said that the relatives of the deceased had themselves lodged the FIR.
Heavy contingent of police in the lead of DSP Saddar, Sadik Odho, DSP Ratodero Abdul Qudoos Kalwar arrived at the scene and asked the protestors to end their protest but in vain.
As soon as police began removing the hurdles from road the protestors pelted them with stones and went unruly. Police resorted to baton charge and lobbed tear gas shells and even aerial firing, the eyewitnesses said. Police claimed that the DSP Ratodero, Abdul Qudoos Kalwar, was injured by the protestors. However, the sources said that he (DSP) was injured with the baton of a policeman.
Later police arrested four villagers — Saleem Shah, Mohammed Ali Bhatti, Deedar Shah and Mohammed Saleh Bhatti — and registered a case of duty assault against 150 protesters.
The arrested villagers were whisked away to Naudero police station where, the sources said, police had severely beaten them.
Police later got cleared the road and restored the traffic after two hours.
INQUIRY DEMANDED: Expressing grave concern over the tragic incident of Railway accident near Ghotki, MNA Anwar Bhutto, Member National Assembly’s standing committee for Railways, has demanded a thorough probe into the incident.
Talking to ‘Dawn’ here on Wednesday he said that the standing committee on Railways of National Assembly should be entrusted to initiate investigation into the gory incident. He said the committee would see whether it was a human error or a terrorist act.
WATER SHORTAGE: The growers protesting over shortage of irrigation water in ‘Sonhari regulator’ blocked the airport road near Dokri on Wednesday. Saleem Jessar, Ali Bakhsh Metlo, Khalid Shah and others led the rally who blocked the road by stationing tractor trolleys.
They alleged that the irrigation officials were deliberately releasing small quantity of water in this regulator that feeds around 20,000 acres of land in the vicinity.
