SAHIWAL: A Chak Badiayain police constable tortured a motorcyclist at a picket at Sikandar Chowk on Saturday for refusing to give him a Rs200 bribe.

Pakpattan District Police Officer Ismail Kharak ordered an inquiry into the incident.

Eyewitnesses say constables were extorting money from the motorists when motorcyclist Muhammad Arshad, of Chak Badiayain, refused to pay the bribe.

This enraged Constable Pir Sultan who beat up Arshad in the presence of several people. Several villagers reacted angrily to the incident and blocked the crossing for 30 minutes.

DEATH SENTENCE: An anti-terrorism court special judge Shabbir Hussain on Saturday handed down death sentence to a suspect in a kidnap and murder case.

Reports said [convict] Jaffar along with his two accomplices kidnapped high security prison contractor Imran Hameed on Dec 8, 2015 and demanded Rs0.9 million ransom for his release. The family paid the ransom but the captors killed Imran.

Police had registered a case and arrested two suspects Ijaz and Ramzan through mobile phone data. The CIA police allegedly killed them in an encounter during a raid to arrest their accomplices. Jaffar had been arrested during the raid. Police had also recovered Imran’s body on their indication. On Saturday, the ATC judge handed down death sentence to Jaffar.

INQUIRY: Commissioner Ali Bahadur Qazi on Saturday ordered an inquiry against Assistant Commissioner Irfan Anwar for allegedly misbehaving with a citizen.

The commissioner appointed ADCR Abdul Qadeer Bajwa as inquiry officer and asked him to submit report within a week. Reports said Musarrat Jabeen of Farid Town filed a complaint saying that she visited the AC office for signature on a birth certificate. She said the AC refused to sign the document and allegedly misbehaved with her.

Published in Dawn, March 4th, 2018