SHO booked for keeping man in custody

Published October 17, 2002

SIALKOT, Oct 16: The Hajipura police registered a case against its SHO Inspector Ashfaq Marth for keeping a citizen Hameed Masih in illegal custody on the order of Sialkot district and sessions judge.

Inspector Marth has not yet been arrested.

Meanwhile, the Sialkot DPO has suspended Inspector Marth from service and ordered a departmental inquiry against him.

The judge had also ordered the DPO to not to appoint Inspector Marth as SHO in any police station till the decision of the case.

DACOITS’ ESCAPE: Daska city police have registered a case against constables Zaheer Sarwar and Muhammad Aslam from whose custody three alleged dacoits were freed by four armed men.

Accused Malik alias Mallu, Aslam alias Achhu and Akbar were brought to the sessions court on Oct 14 in connection with the hearing of cases. They were having lunch along with the constables in the chamber of Advocate Gulzar Ahmad Goraya when they were freed. A police constable, Yousaf, and an alleged dacoit Razzaq sustained injuries when the fleeing men opened fire on police.

Constables Zaheer and Aslam and Advocate Goraya’s clerk Naseer have been arrested. None of the fugitives or their unidentified accomplices have so far been arrested.

TRACTOR SNATCHED: Five gunmen deprived Asghar of his tractor at gunpoint when he was working in his fields in Seokey-Tarigri village, Motra, on Wednesday.

Three gunmen robbed milkman Nazir of Rs1,000 in cash and his motorcycle (GAB-9577) in Sahibkey village, Daska.

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