PESHAWAR, Nov 19: A man of Gulbahar colony has accused Faqirabad police of harassing him and implicating him in false cases. Speaking at a press conference at the press club on Saturday, Tajbar Khan, a meat seller, alleged that a former SHO of Faqirabad police station, Aziz Khan, and one Havaldar Ejaz Ali Haideri had been harassing him for years and they had implicated him in false cases. He said Aziz Khan and Ejaz Ali used to buy meat from his shop on concession since 1991, but later they asked him to give them meat free of cost.

After his refusal, police officials raided his shop and claimed seizing an explosive device from there.

Tajbar Khan said the police officials had themselves planted the bomb in his shop through a man, Umer Gul, who confessed in a court that it was a conspiracy, after which the court acquitted him. Later, the officials were transferred, he said.

Some time later, they were again posted in Faqirabad as deputy superintendent of police and assistant sub-inspector and they started harassing him again, he said.

“Recently, they implicated me in a fake case of kidnapping and forcibly marrying a girl, to whose family I had rented a house and then got it vacated due to non-payment,” he said, adding that he had spent 25 days in jail without having committed a crime.

He said that the girl of the tenant family, Sumera, was married to a man in Chakwal three years ago. He appealed to authorities to hold an inquiry into the highhandedness of the two officials.