SUKKUR, Sept 30: Sindh Ombudsman Yousuf Jamal has taken suo motu notice of the murder of a girl, Khadija, 17, by armed persons while she was in the custody of Ghotki police on Sept 25, apparently because she had married a man of her choice.
Mr Jamal on Thursday appointed two regional directors of his department, Ameer Ali Shah and Akbar Ali Memon, to record statements of people concerned, including, DPO, TPO, and other police officials and relatives of the girl.
Mr Memon and Mr Shah said they would complete the inquiry by tomorrow and submit the report to the ombudsman for further action. The girl had married Abbas Kolachi, a wireless operator of the Ghotki police, in a court of Shikarpur 10 days back, after which the couple had moved to Larkana.
Later, the Larkana police arrested the couple and handed them over to the Ghotki police because Ghulam Mustafa Kaladi, cousin of Ms Khadija, had lodged an FIR, stating that the girl had been kidnapped.
The Ghotki police sent Mr Kolachi to a lockup and kept Ms Khadija in a quarter of an SI, investigation, Ghulam Mohammad Hakro. Later, Mr Kolachi, at the insistence of an elder of his tribe, divorced his wife. Four persons, after the divorce, raided the quarter the girl was staying in and shot her dead.
ILLEGAL MODULES: Police and Rangers raided the Qazi Wah in the Ghotki district on Thursday and demolished illegal modules made at several places. Protesting against the action, area farmers assembled on the Khanpur-Ghotki road and staged a sit-in there.
The farmers raised slogans against irrigation officials. They claimed that the modules demolished were sanctioned and termed the action illegal. They demanded that the Sindh chief minister should take a notice of the matter and order an impartial inquiry.
The protesters said there was an acute water shortage and irrigation officials were supplying water only to big landlords. When contacted, irrigation authorities said they had granted approval to the farmers for constructing small modules but they built big modules.
LAND PROMISED: Adviser to the Sindh chief minister on health affairs Faisal Malik has said that land for the proposed Ghulam Mohammad Khan Mahar Medical College will be provided in 15 days, so that its construction could be started immediately.
Talking newsmen after visiting the Sukkur Civil Hospital on Wednesday, he said a plot situated at the city point, Sukkur, was under consideration and a decision would be taken after reviewing all the aspects.
He said that supply of substandard medicines in government hospitals, especially Civil Hospital, had been viewed seriously, and action would be taken against medical superintendents and civil surgeons in whose hospitals substandard medicines were being supplied.
