CHINIOT, May 4: A victim of police torture was buried after autopsy amid tight security here on Thursday. A heavy contingent of police was deployed and a curfew like situation was witnessed in the city. The local Bar association observed strike and demanded early arrest of the killers of Nazar who was killed by the city police while in custody on Tuesday night.

His death sparked protests and the angry people surrounded the city police station and did not let the police wagon in which Nazra’s body was placed go. They blocked the road and chanted slogans against police. After intervention of MPAs Ali Hassan Qazi and Hasan Murtaza people let the wagon take the body for autopsy after eight hours.

Nazar was nominated in a murder case. He was arrested along with accused Samad by Sub-Inspector Ijaz Khan Mand two weeks ago. They kept them in the lock up without entering their arrest in daily diary.

Union council nazim Khalid Asif met Nazar on behalf of the city police and demanded Rs30,000 for his release but he refused to pay.

Eyewitnesses said on Tuesday night they got them out of lock up and took to the compound of police station where nazim Khalid Asif, naib nazim Anwar Arain and two unidentified men were sitting. SHO Sajjad and Sub-Inspector Ijaz Mand started beating Nazar with rods, kicks and fists till his death.

A case was registered against SHO Sajjad, Sub-Inspector Ijaz and nazim and naib nazim.