LAHORE: The Muslim Town police on Friday registered a case against several activists of the Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) for kidnapping and torturing a lecturer of the Punjab University.

The FIR was lodged under sections 365/379, 147/149 and 337-F of PPC against Hafiz Abdul Muqeet, Behram Saeed, Tanzilur Rehman and dozens of unidentified activists on the complaint of Nadeem Shad, a lecturer at PU’s Institute of Agricultural Sciences.

The victim revealed the case at a press conference on Friday. Members of the PU Academic Staff Association executive council accompanying him condemned the criminal act of the student organisation and appealed to the chief minister to take notice of the incident.

Shad told the media that IJT activists kidnapped him at New Campus bridge and took him to Jamia Masjid of the university. More than 15 activists tortured him, he said, adding that they later threw him into bushes in unconscious state near Canal Road.

He said after regaining consciousness he called his family who shifted him to hospital. He said he had shown his university card for identification to the IJT activists but they snatched it and also the ATM card.

PU IJT Nazim Abdul Muqeet, while speaking to Dawn, denied the allegations and said no IJT activist even knew the lecturer.

He said the PU administration had installed CCTV cameras in the university and they would check the recordings which would reveal who kidnapped the teacher.

He said they were organising a members’ convention of the IJT and the lecturer was levelling allegations at the behest of the university administration.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2015

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