LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Saturday granted the police four-day physical remand of teacher and head of a private school arrested in a case of class-X student’s death by torture.

Gulshan-i-Ravi police produced Muhammad Kamran, the teacher, and Shahid Mahmood Chughtai, the branch head of American Lycetuff School, before the magistrate and sought their 14-day physical remand.

The investigation officer stated that the offence under section 302 of PPC was heinous in nature and the suspects were nominated in the FIR. He said remand of the suspects was required to complete investigation.

The magistrate, Muhammad Ramzan, allowed four-day remand of the suspects and directed the police to produce them again on Sept 11.

The teacher allegedly subjected Hunain Bilal to brutal torture for not bringing a book to the class who died on the spot. Next day, several charged class fellows of the victim set the school on fire. Police reached the spot and controlled the law and order situation while Rescue 1122 extinguished the fire.

Published in Dawn, September 8th, 2019