Drunken ASI assaults detainee

Published April 3, 2006

CHINIOT, April 2: A police ASI was arrested here on Sunday for sodomising a detained accused after drinking liquor. Reports said ASI Shafiqur Rehman of Saddar police took away an accused, Tajamal Hussain, who was in the lock-up, to a house in Garah locality.

The ASI made the accused drink liquor along with him and afterwards allegedly sodomised him.

On being informed of the incident, city DSP Saeed Randhawa ordered registration of a case against the ASI, who was detained in city police station’s lock-up.

Three perisH: Three people including a child died in a traffic accident here on Sunday.

Reports said a speeding bus (KA-99) was going to Chiniot from Jhang when it collided with a motorcycle (FSE-842) near Bukharian, 20Km from here. As a result, the motorcyclist, Tariq, a four-year old child, Ali and a pedestrian, Amjad, died on the spot. A woman, Nasreen Bibi, was also seriously injured in the accident. Police have registered a case.

BURIED: Jalal Hussain Shah, 14-year-old son of Chiniot tehsil Nazim Zulfiqar Ali Shah was laid to rest in a graveyard at Rajoa Town on Saturday night.

He had died in a traffic accident in Lahore.

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