SANGHAR, Aug 14: A complete strike was observed in Tando Adam town and over 200 people staged a sit-in outside the town’s police station in protest against torture of three women by a police official’s family in Chanhio Mohalla on Thursday.

Reports said that police inspector Dawood Dero and his family asked their neighbours to switch off their tape recorder, which was playing national songs. When they refused, the police official and his family members attacked Ms Hamid, her sister Feroza and their mother Sabira with iron rods and sticks.

People of the area rushed to their help and later staged a protest against the incident. The shopkeepers pulled down shutters of the shops and about 200 people staged a sit-in outside Tando Adam police station, demanding registration of FIR against the police officer and his family.

Police were initially reluctant to lodge the FIR against their man but as the sit-in continued for more than six hours they lodged a case, arrested Amanullah, son of the police inspector, and nominated the inspector, his wife, daughter, another son and mother in the case.