June 20, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-us-Sani 15, 1429

LARKANA, June 19: The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Thursday summoned the station house officers (SHOs) of Dari and Market police stations to appear in court on Friday over charges of keeping three innocent men in illegal custody.

Justice Muneeb Ahmed appointed Shabbir Ahmed Mirani as raid commissioner and instructed him to locate the three men after Mansoor Ahmed Tunio filed a petition in court alleging that police had picked his two brothers, Rameez Raja, Hosh Muhamemd and uncle Asghar Ali Tunio from their house on May 15 and kept them in illegal detention since then.

When the raid commissioner visited the Market police station he found the three in lock-up and the duty officer told him that they had been handed over to them by Dari police that day without citing any reason.

On checking the ‘roznamch’ of Drai and Market police stations, the court official found that both the SHOs had not kept any record on the three detainees neither had they shown their arrests.

The SHOs, however, kept insisting that they were wanted to police under an FIR 78/2008. The detainees complained that since the day of their arrest police had been subjecting them to severe torture at Civil Lines police station where they were kept for a month.

They were shifted to Market police station 14 days ago, they said. Police had not kept any entry nor any written record about their arrests, the raid commissioner said. —Correspondent