MARDAN: A woman here has appealed to the President, prime minister and chief justice of the Supreme Court to provide her speedy justice in the case of her son’s extrajudicial killing.

She alleged that her son was allegedly killed by police officials in Sargodha, Punjab, about a week ago.

Talking to Dawn, Ms Gulwari, a resident of Fazal Colony and mother of the slain youth identified as Alam Dost, said that her son was arrested by Mardan police near Takhtbai railway line when he along with his wife and children was on way from Swat district about a year ago.

Later, she said that her son along with another resident of Mardan identified as Nisar were handed over to the Punjab police in the alleged kidnapping case of Punjab MPA Rana Jameel.

She alleged that SHO Saqleen Shah of Bheera police station in Sargodha district had implicated both in several false cases and demanded Rs1.2 million from their family members as bribe for their release. She said that they could not fulfill the SHO’s demand owing to their poor financial position.

She alleged that whenever they visited the said police station they would pay thousands of rupees to the SHO just for meeting her son.

Ms Gulwari, however, lamented that both her son and the other detained person were shot dead in an fake police encounter when she failed to pay bribe to the SHO, adding that bodies of both her son and the other youth were handed over to them a week ago.

She demanded an impartial probe into the extrajudicial killing of her son as she claimed that her son was innocent and falsely implicated in the kidnapping case of Punjab MPA. She appealed to the President and prime minister to provide her justice in the case.

Published in Dawn, September 14th, 2015

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