LARKANA: Larkana district and sessions judge Syed Irshad Ali Shah on Tuesday ordered the SHO of the Waleed police station to register the FIR relating to the July 1 escape of three women from Darul Aman as desired by the complainant.

The judge allowed complainant Ghulam Qadir Chandio to lodge the FIR with the police station.

In his application filed under Section 22-A of the Criminal Procedure Code in the court, Mr Chandio stated that his sister, Nooran Chandio, was actually abducted. He claimed that the police were refusing to register his FIR.

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Advocate Sajid Mahesar, who pleaded the case, said that the judge ordered the police to register the complainant’s FIR against the former Darul Aman head, Mukhtiar Khatoon, two policemen, Allah Bukhsh Brohi and Atta Mohammed Brohi and other policemen and private persons for their involvement in the incident.

The counsel said in the FIR, the names of all these suspects would be mentioned and it would be lodged under sections 365-B (kidnapping of women) and 371-A (selling for prostitution) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Meanwhile, the police are still clueless about the fate of the three inmates.

Armed clash

An armed clash between two rival groups of the Metla clan left five persons injured on Tuesday in Metla village on the Larkana-Naudero road.

The injured were identified as Ataf Metlo, Oshaq, Wajid, Ms Sakina and Rubina.

They were admitted to the Chandka Medical College Hospital. The rivals had traded fire over the ownership of 20 acres of land, police said.

Police and Rangers reached the spot and forced them to stop the firing. However, a group of women led by Ms Mumtaz Khatoon, Ms Zamiran and Ms Rashida blocked the Larkana-Naudero road and demanded that the police arrest the attackers.

The situation was so tense in the area that police were patrolling in an armoured personnel carrier.

Two policemen held

Police have arrested two policemen and a civilian red-handed while stealing oil from a Parco pipeline passing near Fatehpur village within the remit of the Dhamraho police station on Tuesday.

A tractor and its trolley along with 15 big cans filled with oil had also been confiscated, said Dhamraho police station SHO Akhtiar Jagirani while talking to Dawn on Tuesday.

On the complaint of vigilance officer Parco, retired Major Asif Zia, an FIR was registered with the police station against police constables Ghulam Haidar Shar, Dilshad Zangijo and Ramzan Kango.

Road accident

A passenger was killed while 15 were injured when a Karachi-bound coach overturned while overtaking an overloaded truck near Aalee Khabar village within the remit of the Wagan police station, some 15 kilometres off here on the Indus Highway, on Tuesday.

The driver lost control of the wheel while overtaking and the coach collided with the wall of a roadside restaurant.

The dead was identified as Nawab Muhammed, 40, a resident of Swat.

Published in Dawn, August 6th, 2014