UMERKOT: A peasant woman was subjected to inhuman torture by a landowner on his agricultural lands near Dhoronaro town on Tuesday when she asked him for a leave and payment of her dues for treatment.
Her husband, Bhugro Mallah, other family members and residents of the area told officials at the Sufi Faqir police station that the landowner, Tayyab Mangrio, beat up the woman, Hajra Mallah, so brutally that she fainted and had to be rescued and taken to the Umerkot district headquarters hospital for emergency treatment. They said the woman was admitted to the hospital for further treatment. They said she had already been suffering from malaria and wanted the landowner to make payment of her dues so that she could get medicines.
Bhugro Mallah, a resident of 7-Mile Tharwah, a village near Dhoronaro, get a report against Mr Mangrio registered at the police station.
Published in Dawn September 28th, 2016
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