NAWABSHAH, July 14: A large number of villagers of the Muqeem Dahiri village, Daulat-pur taluka, carrying the body of a young man, staged a demonstration in protest against the killing of the man by police, outside the Daulatpur police station on Friday.

Rano Dahiri, 25, was arrested by Daulatpur police from the Muqeem Dahiri village on Friday morning in place of his father who had been booked in a water theft case and was tortured to death.

The protesters, including Hakim Dahiri, uncle of the deceased, and other family members, placed the body outside the police station and raised slogans against police. They demanded immediate arrest of police officials involved in the killing of Rano. They said that injustice was done by arresting Rano Dahiri as he was not wanted and later was tortured to death.

Later, former education minister of Sindh Sardar Khan Mohammad Dahiri reached the spot and assured that they would be provided justice and he would appraise the matter to high-ups after which the protesters dispersed peacefully.

Later, Hakim Dahiri, uncle of the deceased lodged an FIR under section 302, 34 of the PPC at the Daulatpur police station against four policemen, including ASI Niaz Kaleri, constables, Karim Bux Lund and Abdul Hameed Dahiri and driver Maqbool Hussain.