NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 30: Residents of Gul Mohammad Sethar village staged a demonstration in Kandiaro to protest against the arrest of eight persons including three teenagers, on Monday.The protesters, led by Gul Mohammad Sethar, Dr Mohammad Laiq Sethar and Manzoor Sethar gathered outside the Kandiaro press club and staged an hour-long sit-in.

They complained that heavy police contingent in five police mobiles along with civilians, including Ikhtiar Solangi, raided their village and forcibly entered houses and beaten up women and children there.

They said that police were asking about theft from cyclists on Budek-Kandiaro link road.

The protesters said that neither their men were involved in the theft nor police recovered any stolen goods from them.

Police arrested Mohammad Saleh, Ghulam Sarwar, Mazhar Ali, Imdadullah, Mohammad Bachal and three teenage boys Rizwan, Abdul Razzaq and Zamir, they said.

They alleged that police had only shown arrest of four persons while the three boys and another person were kept at some private place.

They demanded that all the arrested persons should be released as they had not committed any offence.

When contacted, Kandiaro police said that they had arrested only four persons in an FIR under section 399, 401 PPC against the accused.