NAWABSHAH: Two large groups of protesters blocked the press club road on Monday, demanding arrest of a teenage boy’s killers and recovery of a huge amount of cash looted from a Hindu trader that day in the city.

Members of Khaskheli community, who had arrived from Khadar area, brought traffic flow to a halt on the press club road by placing dead body of the teenage boy on the road. They were demanding arrest of the boy’s killers.

Hadi Bux Khaskheli, father of the victim, told reporters that his son 18-year-old son Imam Bux, a student of intermediate, was kidnapped by some members of his own community, including Ali Asghar, Ghulam Sarwar, Mohammad Anwar and others in Manzoor­abad village, Khadar area near Sakrand.

When he went to Khadar police station to report about the kidnapping the SHO threw him behind bars instead of taking action to ensure safe recovery of his child, and released him only after wringing out Rs21,000 bribe from him, he said.

He said that due to police apathy his innocent child was murdered and they found his tortured body packed in a bag in a saline water drain in the area that day.

Published in Dawn, April 23nd, 2024