MULTAN: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has appointed Regional Police Officer Sultan Azam Temouri as inquiry officer in the case against Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Sher Ali Gorchani and his father Pervez Iqbal Gorchani.

The Rajanpur city police, on the order of the Lahore High Court’s Multan Bench, registered a case under sections 447/442, 382/148 and 149/ against Sher Gorchani and his father on the allegation of keeping a man in illegal detention, subjecting him to torture and depriving him of shops he claimed had been allotted to him by the Tehsil Municipal Administration. The petition had been filed by Jahanzeb Khan Dreshak alias Chand Khan.

Chand Khan expressed his dissatisfaction over police probe by saying that they did not include some sections in the case including the one related to kidnap. He said he would move a contempt petition against police who also did not include the name of former district police officer Dr Rizwan in the FIR.

Complainant alleges police are being ‘influenced’

“The name of Dr Rizwan is mentioned in my application but police did not include it in the FIR,” he said. He alleged that Mr Gorchani was pressuring police by misusing his powers as the Punjab Assembly deputy speaker. He said more than a dozen cases had been registered against Pervez Iqbal, the father of Mr Gorchani.

As for the cases against him (Chand), he said, he was being “politically victimised”. “I am a political worker and cases are not surprising,” he said and added that he appeared before the inquiry officer and provided all the relevant documents to him.

Mr Gorchani said the name of former DPO Dr Rizwan was excluded from the FIR by police. He said he was waiting for the inquiry report and would move against police especially the RPO and former DPO Ghulam Shabbir Maikin for including his name in the FIR.

He said he would also take legal action against Chand after consulting his legal team.

SHO Chaudhry Fayazul Haq said police included the sections which it deemed suitable and the complainant had right to move court for any grievance.

In his petition, the complainant had stated that he was allotted 10 shops in the General Bus Stand area by the Rajanpur Tehsil Municipal Administration under an agreement but after being elected MPA in 2008, Mr Gorchani started demanding his share from his earnings and over his refusal he was involved in a fake case and was illegally detained and tortured.

Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2016