October 22, 2007	Monday	Shawwal 9, 1428

GUJRANWALA, Oct 21: The Sadar SHO and an ASI, who were booked on court orders earlier for keeping three people in illegal confinement at the police station a few days ago and later intimidating the complainant to stop prosecuting the case, are still working on their slots and the department has not taken any action so far.

The complainant of the case, Muhammad Arshad, told Dawn on Sunday that the delinquent policemen were neither being interrogated nor had been told to report at the Police Lines after relinquishing their charge despite registration of two consecutive cases.

The complaint said SHO inspector Riaz Hadari and ASI Bahadar Shah picked his three relatives — Asif, Yousaf and Sadiq — from their houses and detained them at the police station illegally.

A court bailiff under the directives of the district and sessions judge raided the police station and recovered the confined men and later produced them in the court. The sessions judge freed them and ordered registration of a case against the SHO and the ASI for keeping them in illegal confinement.

The complainant alleged that despite registration of the case, no action was taken against the SHO and the ASI and instead they started intimidating him to stop pursuing the case.

The complainant said he again moved the court on which sessions judge ordered registration of another case against the SHO and the ASI for intimidating and threatening him.

Both the SHO and the ASI are still working on their seats as they were prior to the registration of both the cases. The complainant said the department was bound to initiate disciplinary action against them under the Police Rules, 1934, as well as Police Order, 2002, but nothing such had happened so far.

He appealed to the sessions judge and DIG (Operations) Khadim Hussain Bhattti to provide him justice. — Correspondent