PESHAWAR, May 26: A retired school principal has accused the police of not registering a case against his sons, who, he said, had beaten up their step-mother and half-brothers and usurped their property in the Gulozai area.

A retired principal of a government school, Abdul Majeed, told newsmen during a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club that he had married a widow after the demise of his first wife.

The act infuriated his sons, Wahid Kamal and Saleem Riaz, and grandson, Amjad Rahim, who tortured his second wife and minor sons several times, Mr Majeed alleged and added that they also attacked him.

In the first week of April, he said, his sons in his absence beat his second wife and half-brothers, dislodged them from their house and occupied it. He said he had distributed his property among his sons in front of a Jirga some one-and-a-half years ago.

When he went to the Chamkani police station for registration of an FIR, the police did not register the case as Saleem Riaz was an inspector at Chota Lahore police station, he said. He threatened that if the authorities did not take up the issue within a week, he would set himself on fire in front of CM’s House.