LARKANA, Oct 18: Angry protester from Sehar village surrounded the Badah police station and beat up a police team from Pak Pattan and recovered a two-year baby from the police custody on Thursday.

The eyewitnesses told this scribe that a police party from Pak Pattan led by sub-inspector Bashir Ahmed raided the village and took baby Sahar into their custody in light of an FIR registered by her mother Shama with that police station.

Ms Shama was married to Ahmed Ali Unnar of this village some eight years back and had two children, Junid, 4, and Sahar 2.

The couple separated after some disagreements between them and the children were living with their father.

Ms Shama lodged an FIR of abduction of her daughter Sahar with Pak Pattan police station and accompanied with the police party on Thursday.

The police party teamed up with the Badah police station raided the village and recovered the baby.

This action irked the villagers who came in two tractor-trolleys and beat up the Pak Pattan police and took away the baby.

In the scuffle the sub-inspector Bashir Ahmed, ASI Nasir, Mehar Ali, Abdul Hameed, Sabir Ali (of Pak Pattan police) and Akbar Khokhar of Badah police station received injuries.

When contacted the ASI at Badah police station said that he was alone in the police station and had just transferred and arrived from Shikarpur.

When asked about the incident he expressed his lack of knowledge and that call him after two hours.