DADU, June 4: Residents of Wahi Pandhi, Johi taluka, took out a procession here on Friday to protest against the SHO, Wahi Pandhi police station, for registering what they called a false case against a boy.

Led by Tando Rahim Khan Union Council Naib Nazim Murtaza Rustamani, Wahi Pandhi Citizens' Ittehad president Akbar Lashari, Wahi Pandhi People's Party Parliamentarians president Abdul Rahim Jamali and the mother of the boy, Kareeman, the protesters after marching on main roads of the town held a demonstration outside the press club.

Talking to the protesters, Murtaza Rustamani alleged that SHO Ghulam Abbas Babar after receiving a bribe from a feudal lord registered a fake case against the boy, Jaro Khan Rustamani, when he refused to sell 100 acres of agriculture land to one Hussain Rustamani.

Ms Kareeman accused the SHO of torturing her son to force him to sell the land. She threatened that she would commit self-immolation outside the office of the DPO if her son was not released and the SHO was not suspended.

KILLED: Two persons were killed and one was injured when a Hyderabad-bound passenger coach hit a donkey-cart on the Indus Highway near Amri on Friday morning.

Donkey-cart riders Khan Odho, 40, and Gulzadi, 19, died and Kirshan Odh was injured in the accident. The injured was admitted to the Sehwan Taluka Hospital. The driver escaped, leaving behind the coach.

ARRESTED: Police on Friday arrested absconder Mohammad Ayub Brohi in Jamshoro Phatak and seized a pistol and 10 bullets from his possession.

BODY RECOVERED: Police recovered the body of a 60-year-old unidentified person from bus terminal in Sehwan on Wednesday and handed it over to the Edhi centre for burial. Police expressed opinion that the unidentified person had died due to heat stroke.

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