MIRPURKHAS, May 18: Former DIG (Operation) Mirpurkhas Rana Saleemullah Khan has said he possesses some important information and their disclosure may cost him his life.
He denied allegations levelled in FIRs registered against him and claimed that efforts were under way to lodge more false cases.
Talking to journalists outside the district and sessions court on Friday, he accused Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim of getting cases registered against him.
He said when he was conducting different inquiries under orders of the apex court, he had done nothing wrong.
He also said that he was being victimised.
He mentioned an inquiry regarding a petrol pump in Hyderabad which had been occupied by a police officer and said that he ordered the officer to vacate the premises. This, he added, annoyed the then PPO Sindh, Jehangir Mirza.
He said he was being pressurised to issue a statement endorsing the government’s stand and that was the reason he feared for his life.
Mr Khan said he was remanded to the Central Jail Hyderabad in judicial custody and later transferred to the district prison in Mirpurkhas where there were policemen who had been sent to jail under administrative action taken by him.
He said the government wanted to create a law and order situation in the district prison by sending him there and it was in violation of the order passed by the second additional sessions’ court.
He was produced before Second Additional Sessions Judge Ahmed Luqman Memon in a case relating to the town police pending against him.
The judge issued show-cause notices to the DIG prisons, Hyderabad; the superintendent of central prison, Hyderabad, and the superintendent of district jail, Mirpurkhas, on a contempt of court application filed by the former DIG's counsel, asking them to appear in person in the court and clarify why was the officer sent back to the Mirpurkhas prison and why did the district prison administration lodge him there, despite the court's order to shift him to Hyderabad.
On another application by the defence, the court allowed A-class facilities to him and fixed the case for May 21 for bail application and May 25 for hearing of the main case.
He was arrested in Islamabad on May 14 and was brought to Mirpurkhas the following day. He was remanded to the central prison in Hyderabad and later taken to Mirpurkhas.
