LARKANA, Dec 8: The Qambar police on Friday filed a theft case against five people, including a minor boy and a woman, who were found in illegal confinement at the police station by a court official on Thursday.
Bakhtawar, her sons -- Murtaza, 8, Irshad, 30, and Naveed, 22 -- and another man, Shahid Gopang, were produced in the court of the district and sessions judge, Qambar-Shahdadkot, on Friday by the raid commissioner who had conducted the raid on the Qambar police station. The court set them free.
Qambar police SHO Altaf Dero told the court that he had arrested the five people as suspects in a theft case, but had to admit that no FIR had been registered against them.
He failed to produce entry of the arrests in the police station diary or any other documents validating their confinement at the police station.
The detainees said that they were not involved in any theft incident and that the SHO had not only kept them in illegal detention but also tortured them.
The judge ordered the SHO to appear in the court on Saturday for the verdict.
Apparently later, the Qambar police registered an FIR against the Ms Bakhtawar, Irshad, Naveed and another man, Ifran, on the compliant of
Abdul Fatah Shaikh. They have been accused of stealing gold ornaments and some household articles from his house.
The theft incident had taken place on December 2, sources told Dawn.
FIR: A woman has been strangulated to death by her husband over a minor domestic dispute, according to an FIR lodged with the Drigh police of the Qambar area.
Complainant Abdul Nabi Chandio has accused his brother-in-law Rustum of strangulating his wife Razia to death with the help of Mirza and Kabir in Shahpur village on Thursday night.
A minor domestic dispute was behind the murder, he stated in the FIR.
However, no arrest has been made till the filing of this report.
PROCESSION: The women activists of the Sunni Tahrik took out a procession here on Friday to protest against what they called the government's apathy in unmasking the characters behind the Nishtar Park killing.
Led by Seema Khuhawar, the procession emerged from the city office of the Sunni Tahrik and, after marching on different roads, culminated outside the local press club.
Speaking on the occasion, Ms Khuhawar and others criticised the ‘indifferent’ attitude of the authorities to the tragedy said that the rulers were hushing up the incident though leading Ulema were killed with dozens of others in it.
They said that the government must ensure arrest of the killers and expose those behind the gory incident.
