HYDERABAD, Jan 20: Hyderabad District Nazim Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman has assured the relatives of a jailed PPP leader, Hassan Rajar, that he will visit Hyderabad central jail on Jan 27 and personally inquire into the allegations of torture.

He said this while speaking at the solidarity rally outside the Hyderabad press club where the relatives of the PPP leader were holding a demonstration to protest against the alleged torture of Hassan Rajar in central jail Hyderabad by the prison authorities.

Dr Rafiquzzaman added that he would see to it that Hassan was provided facilities in accordance with jail manual.

Earlier, talking to newsmen, Hassan’s wife, Shama Rajar, alleged that inhuman atrocities had been unleashed against her husband by the jail authorities.

She said that her husband was seriously ill and although he was a ‘B’ class prisoner, he had been locked up in solitary confinement.

She said that as a consequence, her husband was having mental problems and added that previously he had been operated upon four times.

She warned if he was not provided medical treatment, his life would be at stake.

She said if any harm came to the life of her husband, the superintendent of the prison, his deputy, and a suspended jail sepoy, Jumman Sehto, would be responsible for it.

She also gave a written memorandum to the District Nazim, Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman.

WORKSHOP: A workshop on Phonetics was conducted by the eminent linguist, Professor Syed Qalandar Shah Lakiari, in the Bahria Foundation College, Hyderabad, on Saturday.