DADU, Jan 2: The district and sessions judge and Human Rights Board director on Friday ordered the Pat Gul Mohammad SHO to produce two detainees in the court on Jan 5.

He passed the order on an application filed by Ali Akbar Qambrani, resident of Pat Gul Mohammad, against the SHO and a an area resident, Ali Asghar.

The complainant stated that SHO Khursheed Junejo, after receiving bribe from Asghar, raided their houses, took away thousands of rupees, gold ornaments and other valuable and detained his brother, Mohammad Essa, and his nephew, Ghulam Nabi Qambrani.

He said that the SHO asked them to vacate their houses and hand over their property to Asghar, threatening that otherwise he would register concocted cases against them.

He further stated that the SHO was torturing the detainees. Meanwhile, a group of women and minor children belonging to Akbar's family held a demonstration outside the Dadu press club to protest against the SHO. They appealed to the Sindh IG and Hyderabad RPO for justice.

ARRESTED: The Johi police raided at Dadu-Johi road on Friday, arrested an accused, Yaqoob Mallah, and recovered one shot gun from his possession.

PRISON CLASH: A head constable and six under-trial prisoners were injured in a clash on Thursday during a search in the barracks of the Mehar sub-jail. Under-trial prisoners of the sub-jail were observing a hunger strike when the jail administration initiated a search in their barracks. To counter any untoward incident, a police force was also deployed.

The prisoners and police officers exchanged hot words that led to a fight as a result of which head constable Fida Hussain Solangi and six prisoners - Deedar Khoso, Shahmeer, Mashooq, Wali Mohammad Mazari, Aijaz Chandio and Imamuddin - were injured.

On complaint of the head constable, the Mehar police have registered a case against the six UTPs for attacking a policeman on duty. The prisoners alleged that the jail administration was not providing them with food, medicines and other facilities as per the jail manual and, moreover, the officials were torturing them every month to extort Rs1,000 per prisoner.

The inmates threatened that if the case registered against six UTPs was not withdrawn and the facilities not provided, they would continue the hunger strike untodeath.

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