KHAIRPUR, Jan 31: Three illegally detained persons were produced before the district and sessions judge, Nisar Mohammad Shaikh, here on Saturday after being recovered from a police picket of the Kolab Jail.

Raid Commissioner Shafi Mohammad Siddiqui, on the directives of the sessions judge, recovered three persons - Momin, Ghulam Asghar and Ghulam Akbar Gopang - illegally detained at the police picket late on Friday.

The court ordered the in charge of the police picket to pay compensatory amount of Rs500 to each of the recovered man.

FIR: In charge, guard of prisoners party, Mohammad Ishaq Solangi lodged an FIR against four policemen at the A-section police station late on Friday.

ASI Abdul Hameed Goraya, constables Mohammad Usman Panhwar, Saeed Chandio and Umeed Ali have been named in the FIR.

The complainant said that due to negligence of the policemen, two prisoners managed to escape from the premises of the sessions court.

However, no arrest was reported till the filing of this report.

KILLED: A student of the Nara Government Shah Inayat School, Nawab Ali Bhurgari, was injured when a tractor trolley hit him near the Nara Gate in Nara taluka on Friday.

He succumbed to his injuries on way to the Khairpur Civil Hospital.

Meanwhile, a youth, Mohammad Saleh, son of Mangar Khan Rajpar, was injured when he got trapped in the belt of a diesel engine in Habibabad village near Faiz Ganj.

SNATCHED: Some unidentified armed persons snatched a rented car from Kandiaro town on Friday.

Two persons rented a car from Abdullah Solangi. Later, they manhandled the driver and fled, taking the car with them.

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