HYDERABAD, Nov 12: The Khanzada Rajput Qaumi Yakjehti Council has accused the Tharushah police of committing inhuman atrocities against members of the Khanzada community.

The council appealed to the president, Sindh governor and other authorities concerned to take notice of the police excesses before the matter took an ethnic turn.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday, the Nazim of Tharushah union council, Naushahro Feroze district, Abdul Rauf Khanzada, said the Tharushah police had registered four cases against the Khanzadas, ransacked their houses, maltreated the female members of the community and arrested 30 persons.

He said the whereabouts of 24 of the arrested persons was still not known.

He said on Nov 9, Ghulam Fareed and his younger brother, Nauman, belonging to the Khanzada community, asked Rafiq Memon, not to demolish a dirty water drain but Rafiq and his brothers beat them up.

He said Fareed went to the police station and registered a non-cognizable case against the accused.

The Nazim said Rafiq also registered a counter non-cognizable case against Fareed and Nauman.

He said the in charge of the police station, Liaquat Abbasi, asked him to bring Fareed and Nauman to the police station to resolve the dispute through negotiations.

However, he said, he went to the police station along with Fareed and Nauman but Rafiq did not turn up.

He said the next day, the police registered an FIR against Fareed and ten other youths of the Khanzada community at the insistence of Rafiq.

He said the same day, Rafiq Memon, Iqbal Memon, Sajid Memon, Allah Dino Memon and Imtiaz Memon, along with the SHO, Tharushah, and other policemen, cordoned off the houses of the Khanzada community and just few minutes before Iftar, they entered the houses and ransacked them.

The Nazim said they also barged into his own house and the SHO, Liaquat Abbasi, and inspector Qasim Solangi misbehaved with womenfolk and resorted to aerial firing.

He said panic was created in the area due to the firing and the police rounded up scores of youths and took them to unknown places.

He said when he reached the police station for the release of the arrested youths, he saw a councillor, Tikka Khan, was lying there stark naked and was being subjected to torture.

The Nazim said when he tried to intervene, he was threatened with dire consequences.

He demanded the registration of an FIR against the police officers concerned and the recovery of the missing youths.

Speaking on the occasion, the chairman of the council and Nazim of union council-6, Latifabad, Abdul Saleem Khanzada, appealed to the government to take notice of the police excesses.

The provincial president of the council, Abdul Wahab, urged the DPO, Naushahro Feroze, to order an impartial inquiry into the matter and immediately remove SHO Abbasi and inspector Solangi.

He said the community would decide future course of action at a meeting which would be convened soon if justice was not restored.