SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 9: Sadar police recovered a youth detained by a landlord in his private cell in Kalokey village, some 25 kilometers from here on Sunday.

Reports said that Shamsher, 25, who would work in the fields of landlord Malik Farman, had taken a loan of Rs40,000 from him some five months back on the promise to return it shortly.

The youth told police that he had gone to work in the fields as usual when the landlord asked his workers to shift him to a private cell where he was severely tortured. He said the landlord asked him to return the borrowed money immediately.

SHO Mian Shafqat said that Shamsher had been detained in a private cell for two months. He was forced to work in the landlord’s field in the day while he was kept in chains during the night in the cell. Even his mother was not allowed to meet him, he said. When the police raided on a tip-off, Shamsher was locked up and was chained, the SHO said. —Correspondent