SUKKUR: Khairpur SSP has suspended the SHO of Wada Macchiyoon for lodging an FIR against Baloch Yakjehti Committee leader Dr Mahrang Baloch and about 300 of her companions, who are protesting in Islamabad against enforced disappearance of Baloch missing persons.

Sources in police said that SSP Dr Samiullah Soomro took notice of the FIR at the police station which fell within the jurisdiction of Khairpur and immediately placed the SHO, Sarfaraz Khoso, under suspension for registering the case against Baloch campaigners under Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code on his own and without first consulting his superiors.

They said that the SSP had directed officials concerned to conduct an inquiry against the SHO and find out on whose orders had he field the sedition case. The SHO had neither received any orders from the SSP for the registration of the sedition case nor had he informed him about it prior to the move, said the sources.

When this correspondent made repeated calls to the SSP to seek his comments on the SHO’s action, he did not attend the call but texted him a three-word message “on his own”.

Published in Dawn, January 7th, 2024