FIR against policemen in torture case

Published January 28, 2007

LARKANA, Jan 27: Market police on Saturday registered an FIR against Assistant Sub-Inspector Aftab Abbasi and four other policemen on the compliant of Hazoor Bakhsh Malik who charged the policemen had chopped off his sensitive part.

Mr Malik stated in the FIR that police had picked him a week ago from a roadside hotel in Shahi Bazaar where he worked as a daily-wager on charges of theft and kept torturing him and demanding bribes since then.

On January 25 the ASI along with four policemen entered the lockup and cut off his sensitive organ after shoving a piece of cloth into his mouth, he said.

To cover up the crime the ASI registered a false case of attempted suicide against him, he said.

On January 26 adviser to chief minister Waseem Akhtar took notice of the incident and ordered Deputy Inspector General of Police Akhtar H. K. Gorchani to conduct a probe.

The DIG in his report to the additional inspector general and regional police officer of Sukkur the same day indicated that Mr Malik was not mentally sound. “I am of the opinion that the man . . . has himself cut his male organ, so a case of attempted suicide has been registered against him,” he said.

Meanwhile, SP Investigation Karachi Mushtaque Mahar who had been appointed inquiry officer by the inspector general of police Sindh arrived in Larkana on Saturday night.

He would begin probe into the case from Sunday.

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