MIRPURKHAS, June 3: Around 80 peasants, including women and children, who had been released from illegal confinement of landlord Abdul Rehman Mari by Sanghar police, staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Tuesday to protest against a murderous attack on them allegedly by the henchmen of the landlord.

Abdul Rehman Mari is in Hyderabad prison in the famous Mannu Bheel case.

The protesters, led by Mannu Meghwar, Hero, Chetan and Dahio carried banners and placards and were demanding of the government to take action against the armed henchmen of the landlord who, they said, had tried to kill them in an armed attack at their village Abdullah Halepoto near Jhillori.

They told media that on May 10, on a written complaint of Mannu Meghwar, the DPO of Sanghar, Waliullah Dal, directed the Jhole police to get released the detained peasants.

They added that the Jhole police conducted a raid and got them released from the illegal captivity of landlord Abdul Rehman Mari.

They said they were detained there since three years and were compelled to work as bonded labourers by nephews of the above landlord and his henchmen including Ali Jan Mari, Rasheed Khan Mari, Jan Khan Mari, Kamdar Achar Khaskheli and Munshi Hakim Oad. They lamented that they were not allowed to move outside the fields.

They claimed that after their release from the captivity they were living at village Abdullah Halepoto near Jhillori, when on Monday night, Abdul Jabbar Mari and Ali Ghulam Mari, nephews of the landlord and their henchmen came there in a vehicle and resorted to heavy aerial firing and tried to kidnap them but villagers in retaliation also opened fire.

The assailants left the area threatening them to come back again soon to kidnap them.

They demanded of the chief justice of Pakistan, the Sindh chief minister, the home minister of Sindh to take notice of this matter and ensure registration of an FIR against the attackers and provide them protection.

STATE LAND SOLD: Residents of village Mir Ghulam Ali Khan Talpur, deh Panhwerki, taluka Mirpurkhas, have accused that a former Tapedar of Mirpurkhas has prepared forged documents of state land adjacent of their village in the name of one Mir Jan Mohammad Talpur.

Abdul Majeed Khaskheli, Gul Baig Mari and other villagers addressing a press conference here on Tuesday said that Mr Talpur on the basis of these documents sold the said piece of land to Tariq Aziz, a resident of Satellite town.

They further claimed that they had also submitted complaints to the DCO of Mirpurkhas, the EDO of revenue and the DPO and the Mukhtiarkar of Gothabad scheme against Mir Jan Mohammad Talpur and the Tapedar but in vain.