KOHAT, April 11: An inspector and another police personnel were dismissed from service by the district police officer after a departmental inquiry was conducted into the case of custodial killing of two brothers last year.

SSP Abid Ali while announcing the findings of the inquiry on Saturday dismissed SHO Zafarullah Khan and head constable Rafiuddin for killing two brothers on November 7 last year inside the Ustarzai police station.

Head constable Riaz was acquitted in the same case and order of his reinstatement on the same post was issued. The two accused had entered into a compromise with the victims' family after paying a handsome compensation. The court had also acquitted them after the compromise.

In another case, the SSP ordered the arrest of head constable Khan Shirin of Ustarzai police station for taking bribe from one Yar Mohammad, resident of Loralai, Balochistan, while he was travelling on a bus.

The head constable had also exchanged his foreign made pistol with a local one. The aggrieved man brought the case into the notice of the SSP who after holding an inquiry ordered his arrest and registered an FIR for taking bribe and depriving a person of his property through fraud.