May 24, 2007	Thursday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 07, 1428

SANGHAR, May 23: Former DIG of Mirpurkhas Rana Salimullah Khan on Wednesday expressed the fear that he would be implicated in yet another fabricated case after the court cleared him of charges levelled against him in the present case.

Mr Khan who earlier voiced fears for life after his arrest in Islamabad on May 14 told journalists after he was produced in the court of civil judge and judicial magistrate Shaikh Intisar in Khipro that the jail administration did not spare anything to subject him to humiliation and mental torture.

He alleged that some men started loitering on the roof of his cell in the district jail Mirpurkhas after midnight and shouted expletives and abuses at him. He was not even allowed to take bath, he complained.

He said that the jail official sent for him to his office several times a day with an apparent intention to make him walk before cell No.5. Its inmates, some former police officers who were arrested when he was DIG, hurled abuses at him, Mr Khan said.

He said that the jail officials repeatedly carried out search of his cell and he was not allowed to sleep at night. Doctors had examined him and advised five tests on the orders of additional session judge of Mirpurkhas but the jail official did not follow the orders, he said.

Mr Khan’s defence lawyers Salahuddin Panhwar, S. M. Yousuf and Mir Hassan Chanhio told journalists that the court of district and sessions judge of Sanghar would hear the application for bail of former DIG on May 26.

The court recorded statements of prosecution witnesses, Alladino Bheel, Ms Raj Bai and Ms Jama.

People who had gathered in a large number in the court showered rose petals on the former DIG when he entered the court premises amid tight security.

The complainant Amirio Bheel stated in the FIR filed against the former DIG under sections 458, 354, 344, 220 506 PPC and R/W 155-C, 156 Police Ordinance 2007 on May 14 at Khipro police station that the DIG along with along with Inspector Shahid Bajwa picked two women Jama and Raj Bai from their village on Sept 16, 2006 and pressurised them to accept that they were the daughters of Mannu Bheel.

The former DIG has since been denying all the charges. He was quoted as saying that he was being punished for following the instructions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan with regard to locating the missing family members of Mannu Bheel.

The Sindh chief minister was greatly annoyed when some influential persons who were involved in the case were taken to task, he had said.

Our Mirpurkhas correspondent adds: The second additional sessions judge on Wednesday issued notice to superintendent of Mirpurkhas district prison Ziaur Rehman to appear in court on May 25 after counsel for the former DIG, Salahuddin Panhwar, filed a contempt of court application against him.

The counsel said in the application that the superintendent failed to implement court orders issued on May 15 about providing better class to the former DIG who was lodged there.