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SIALKOT, July 14: Phalora police have registered a case against five of its officials, including a sub-inspector, on the orders of the Lahore High Court for keeping a man in illegal detention and torturing him. Salamat Ali of Chahar Bajwa village, Pasrur, told the court that Sub-Inspector Riaz Butt, ASI Muhammad Yunas and three constables snatched Rs16,000 in cash and gold rings and chains at gunpoint from him and took him to the Phalora police station.
They kept him in detention for several days, with the alleged connivance of his rival, councillor Mukhtar. The police officials denuded him and tortured him. They threw him in the fields near his village considering him dead.
He said a medicolegal certificate has also proved brutal physical torture on him.
He said he brought the matter into the notice of the police high-ups but to no avail.
FIR REGISTERED: The Daska city police registered a case after a week of the incident.
According to the FIR lodged under Section 392 PPC on Wednesday, four robbers stormed into the house of Asmat Ejaz in Sahi Colony on the night of July 8 and escaped with gold and other valuables worth Rs500,000.
