August 23, 2007	Thursday	Sha’aban 9, 1428

LARKANA, Aug 22: The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday asked the additional advocate-general to ensure that DPO and TPO of Kashmore and the SHO of RD-109 police station appeared in court on Thursday after police arrested two men in violation of court orders.

The division bench had restrained police on Aug 16 from arresting the two who were nominated in an FIR but the police went ahead with raiding the petitioner’s house and arresting Sabir Hussain and Mohammed Ali.

The petitioner Mohammed Yousuf Jatoi had filed a petition in the court that police registered a false case of kidnapping against his brother, Zulfikar Ali, Tahir and Sabir after he solemnised marriage with Ms Fozia Soomro in court.

Mr Yousuf filed an urgent application on Aug 20 informing the court that police had picked the two against its orders and kept them in illegal detention at Qilla Mir Jan police post of RD-109 police station. The court appointed Abid Hussain Qazi as raid commissioner the same day with instructions to locate the detainees.

When the raid commissioner raided the police post on Aug 20 he found the two in fetters and the post in-charge told him that ASI Mohammed Nawaz Chachar had brought them to the post and there was no entry against them.

The detainees told the court official that they had been severely tortured and serious suffered injuries to their heads.

The SHO of RD-109 police station along with the in-charge of police post appeared on Wednesday before the division bench with the two detainees who said in their statements that police had arrested them.

They said that after their arrest the DPO of Kashmore tortured them at his house and later they were moved blindfolded to Qilla Mir Jan police post.

The court asked the SHO and other policemen whether any case had been registered against the detainees and they replied in negative. “From where have you brought them and produced them when they were free,” the judges asked but police could not come up with a satisfactory answer.

The court referred the detainees to the medical superintendent of Chandka Medical College Hospital and asked the SHO of RD-109 and two head constables to furnish a surety bond of Rs100,000 each with the deputy registrar and appear in court on Aug 23.