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| September 25, 2005 | Sunday | Sha'aban 20, 1426 |
Woman claims son kept in illegal detention
PESHAWAR, Sept 24: Police on Saturday got one-day remand of four men from a court after registering a case against them on Friday but their relatives have accused police of keeping 13 people in illegal confinement at private places. Kamrez, a young man working in an embroidery shop in Karimpura bazaar, was grabbed by about eight policemen of Hashtnagri when he was going to his workplace from his house in New Gate area on Tuesday, claimed his mother and other people of the area.
The woman told this correspondent that her family did not know where her son had been kept since Tuesday.
“He was severely beaten by police and his hair was also cut before he was taken by policemen to some unknown place,” she alleged. She said many people of the area had seen the incident.
Members of the family went to the police station several times but in vain. Police denied having arrested anyone from the area, said Kamrez’s brother Masrur.
SHO Banaras Khan also abused the family and ordered it to get out of the police station, he said.
Residents of New Gate area alleged that Hashtnagri police had taken away nine other young men of the locality and not kept them in the police station lock-up nor shown their arrest in official record.
When officials concerned were contacted on Friday about the alleged illegal confinement, they said police had not arrested the people and it might have been done by those who had been given a special task to curb crime in the walled city.
Later in the night, Hashtnagri police registered an FIR against four people and shifted them to the police station’s lock-up from an unknown location.
Police on Saturday morning presented the accused in a local court and secured their remand for one day.
“We arrested four people on Friday on the charges of stealing mobile phones and extortion,” said SHO Banaras Khan. Mr Khan was suspended a few months ago because of his failure to maintain law and order in the jurisdiction of West Cantonment police station where he was serving on the same post.
The SHO said police had arrested Ishtiaq, son of Mushtaq; Kamrez alias Tamrez, son of Imroz; Irfan, son of Nazir Gul; and Gul Rehman alias Kakay, son of Fazlur Rehman.
They were members of a gang involved in crimes, he said, adding that police had taken them into custody after receiving complaints from people of the area.
However, he denied have taken away nine other men from the area.
Meanwhile, residents of Karimpura have accused Kotwali police station SHO Saleem Khan of keeping two men at an unknown place for five days.
Muzammil Shah and Babu were taken away two weeks ago and police released them after keeping them at unknown locations for five days, they alleged. The police had interrogated several people in a murder case of last month.
Sources said that Gulbahar police also arrested Israr and Naimat Gul last week from Sheikhabad area and kept in custody without recording their detention officially.
A senior police official, however, denied all the charges and said it was impossible to keep any accused at private places for interrogation.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Investigation, Badar Farrukh, said that some times police shifted an accused to another police station’s lock-up due to certain reasons.
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