THATTA, Feb 7: Thatta District Nazim Syed Shafqat Hussain Shirazi through a letter to Sindh IG police has expressed dissatisfaction over the selection of candidates for the posts of 230 police constables in the district and has urged re-interview the applicants in collaboration with the elected representatives.

Through a press release issued here on Thursday, he claimed that hundreds of local applicants came to his office in a rally and complained of the discriminatory attitude of the selection team headed by DIG training Yamin Khan and assisted by Muzaffar Shaikh and Rukhsar Ahmed Khan, the principals of police training college, Saeedabad and Shahdadpur, respectively, and DPO Thatta Najaf Quli Mirza.

The applicants alleged that police resorted to baton charge and injured a number of them.

The district Nazim said in his letter that his government could not remain a silent spectator in such a situation of nepotism and wanted to help local unemployed youths to get recruited on merit.

This correspondent made several attempts to seek the version of the interview team but owing to its intense pre-occupation failed to do so.

However, it was told by police sources that the team had already dropped the applications of other districts and entertained only 2,000 applications of locals for the posts of 230 vacancies.

Only 130 of them succeeded in measurement and running test out of whom only 22 passed the successive written test and the viva-voce was held on Thursday, sources added.