HYDERABAD, July 25: District Public Safety Commission chairman Masood Pervez has recommended action against an SHO for illegally detaining a man and registering a false case against him.

The action was proposed on the basis of a report of a team of the DPSC. The commission report said that Bhanote police station SHO Abdul Haq Shah had violated law while arresting Sher Mohammad alias Shero and had registered a false case against him under section 216-A, PPC, and section 21(2), Hudood Ordinance.

It said that the SHO had entered the house of Sher Mohammad on May 26 without lawful authority, arrested him and kept him in wrongful confinement at the police station. The police officer had tortured family members and demanded Rs50,000 from one Anwar for release of Sher Mohammad.

The SHO had shown arrest of the man on June 12 although he had been arrested on May 26, the report further said. Mr Anwar, a family member of Sher Mohammad, had lodged a complaint with the DPSC in this regard.