LARKANA, Oct 29: The district and sessions judge, Larkana, on Friday secured release of six people who were illegally detained at the Gaji Khuhawar police station. Those freed include Gulbahar, Gulzar, Nasarullah, Nawaz, Maula Bakhsh and Ali Gul Chandio.
They were recovered by a court official, Pir Bakhsh Khokhar, during a raid on the police station on Thursday. SHO Asghar Brohi failed to produce any document for their detention and said they were handed over to him by Shahdadkot SHO Hakeem Bullo.
A petition in this connection was submitted in the court by Qamar Chandio stating that the villagers were picked up by police from Gulan-ji-Wandh village on Sept 8. Since then the police were hiding them at different police stations. Sanjar Bhatti police SHO Fida Hussain Gopang had asked for Rs100,000 for their release. The court adjourned petition till the next hearing.
SBC: Seven advocates filed their nomination papers on Friday to contest for four seats of the Sindh Bar Council in Larkana and Shikarpur districts. They are Ghulam Dastagir Shahani, Asif Soomro, Ayaz Soomro, Sarfraz Jatoi and Ghulam Rasool Abro, Yasin Babar and Mohammed Bakhsh Odho. The election will be held on Nov 27. About 755 voters will choose three members for the tenure from Jan 2005 to 2009.
WORKERS' DEMO: Daily-wage workers of the district public health engineering department held a demonstration and observed a token hunger strike outside the district council hall on Thursday to press relevant authorities to regularize their services.
Daily-wage workers union president Niaz Hussain Kalhoro said that since 1996, around 100 employees were awaiting regularization of their services. The workers could not look after their families with a meagre salary of Rs1,200 a month, he stressed.
He urged the Sindh government to intervene in the matter and ensure early regularization of their services and permanent absorption in any one of the departments.
