December 21, 2006	Thursday	Ziqa'ad 29, 1427

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LARKANA, Dec 20: Raid commissioners got five men released on Wednesday who had been kept in illegal detention at two police stations in Larkana and Shahdadkot-Qambar districts.

Larkana district and sessions judge appointed Pir Bakhsh Khokhar as raid commissioner to locate the arrested men following a petition filed by Ms Samul Dasti who stated that police had arrested her two brothers Rajib Dasti and Mohammed Hayat Dasti about a week ago in Shahkani Jatoi village and kept them in illegal confinement.

The court official made a surprise visit of Civil Lines police station and found four men identified as Rajib Dasti, Mohammed Hayat Dasti, Yaseen Jatoi and Imtiaz Jatoi in police lock-up.

He released all the four after the SHO of police station failed to show any documents proving their arrests and directed him to appear in court along with papers if he had any on Thursday.

The district and sessions judge of Qambar-Shahdadkot appointed a raid commissioner to find Khadim Hussain Mirbahar after his brother Mohammed Alam Mirbahar complained to the court that police had pickjed up his brother when he was selling fish.

They also took away three maunds of fish and snatched from him Rs3,000, he stated in an application.

The raid commissioner Liaquat Ali Sangi raided Shahdadkot police station and found Mr Mirbahar detained illegally. He got the detainee released after the duty officer failed to show documents to justify the arrest and directed that SHO Ashfaque Mangi, taluka municipal officer and three police constables appear in court along with documents on Thursday.

HUNGER STRIKE: The sacked employees of Sui Southern Gas Company observed hunger strike outside the local press club on Wednesday demanding their reinstatement following Supreme Court’s verdict in their favour.

Thirty dismissed employees who vowed to continue hunger strike till they were reinstated charged that the company was deliberately delaying their reinstatement and appealed to chief justice of Pakistan to get them justice. Leaders and workers of different political organisations visited the hunger strikers camp and assured the distressed employees of their support.