KHYBER: A Landi Kotal-based family on Friday accused the Islamabad police of illegally confining one of its members and falsely implicating him in a drug smuggling case.

Khalilur Rehman told reporters at the district press club in Landi Kotal that the local police took his brother, Amjad Khan, into custody on Jan 16 and handed him over to the Islamabad Industrial Area police on Jan 18 in a car theft case registered against him by them.

He said the Islamabad police kept Amjad in illegal confinement for a month, didn’t produce him in the court of law for trial, and contacted his family to demand a huge sum for his release.

Mr Khalil said the Islamabad police neither allowed his family to meet the detainee nor did they disclose the place of his detention.

He added that as the Islamabad police failed to pressure his family for illegal payment to secure the release of Amjad, they registered another FIR against him charging him with smuggling drugs.

The resident insisted that the police of his area unlawfully detained his brother before handing him over to Islamabad police without specifying his offence.

He demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad police chiefs to order a probe into the matter for dispensing justice to his brother.

Meanwhile, the Khyber police on Friday claimed that they had neither conducted a raid in Bara to arrest a suspected militant nor had they apologised to any elderly woman over misbehaviour during the raid.

Officials at the Shah Kas police centre in Jamrud told Dawn that the raid was conducted by the security forces in Sipah area four days ago and the local police didn’t participate in it.

“There is no question of our [police’s] apology to the woman as we’re not part of that raid meant to arrest a tribesman suspected of having links with militants,” an official said.

Published in Dawn, February 24th, 2024