DERA GHAZI KHAN, May 1: Police have registered a murder case against the station house officer (SHO) of Saddar Police Station and four other policemen after hours-long protest by the public against the killing of an under-trial captive in the lockup.

Kashif from 102 Urban Union Council was picked up by the Saddar police two weeks ago for motorcycle snatching. Police detained him without any legal provision as his arrest was not shown in police record. A couple of days ago, police got his his physical remand from a local court.

On April 30, police claimed Kashif had committed suicide in the lockup by shoot himself in his forehead with a revolver. Doctors who conducted medical examination of Kashif’s body said the deceased had been shot from the closest range, adding that there had been no marks of torture on the body. Many relatives of the deceased contradicted doctors’ claim and said they had seen scars on the body. Dawn also saw marks of torture on the body.

Later on, relatives and other people took to the road, placed the body in the middle of a road and protested for 10 hours demanding the arrest of policemen for killing the youth in custody.

Saddar police registered a murder case against SHO Ali Muhammad and four others. All accused were at large, according to Shaukat, an official of the Saddar Police Station.