LAKKI MARWAT, June 17: Nazims and members of union councils have criticised local police for allegedly fabricating charges against them and subjecting them to torture.

Speaking at a press conference here on Friday, union nazim Tareefullah Khan and former nazim Muhammad Ibrahim said that they were going in a car when a party of the Serai Naurang police station headed by SHO Shabbir Hussain stopped the car saying they were carrying weapons.

“When we stopped, the police officials started abusing us and then they beat us in presence of a large number of people,” they said, showing marks of torture on their bodies.

They were accompanied by Nazim UC Begukhel Muhammad Azim Khan, Nnazim UC Abakhel Habibur Rehman, district councillor Haji Juma Raz Khan, Naib Nazim UC Abdulkhel Hameedullah Jan and former nazim UC Darra Pezu Abdul Mutlib.

They said the police later took them to the police station and a false case was registered against them for possessing illegal weapons.

“The police kept on torturing us in the police station the whole night,” they said and added that a doctor in his medical examination report had confirmed torture on their bodies when a judicial magistrate sent them to the city hospital for check-up.

They demanded an impartial inquiry and suspension of the SHO Serai Naurang Shabbir Hussain, ASI Muhammad Aslam and in-charge FRP Naikum Khan.