HYDERABAD, March 18: Over 50 residents of Waqar Town including women, staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Monday against the SHO and other staff of the Qasimabad police station.

Talking to newsmen, the protesters accused the Qasimabad police of illegal raids on their homes on March 12 and the arrest of several youths in false cases.

They said that the women were also subjected to violence by the police.

They appealed for justice and protection to the people of the locality against the alleged high-handedness of the police.

When the SHO, Qasimabad police station, Arshad Hussain Leghari, was contacted on telephone, he told Dawn that on a tip off, the police had arrested Azizullah Jamali on March 15 and recovered 500 grams of charas from his possession.

He claimed that the police party was attacked by women with stones and sticks in which two policemen were injured.

He said that eleven cases were registered against the members of the Jamali clan at the Qasimabad police station, 15 cases at GOR police station, three cases at Hussainabad police station and one case was registered at the Tando Yousuf police station.

He said that the members of the clan had also occupied the plots of other people by force.