KARACHI, Nov 21: The city council resumed its debate on police excesses on Thursday.

Convener of the house, Tariq Hasan, asked the members to refrain from lengthy speeches and give concrete suggestion. He informed the house that the Public Safety Commission was expected to become functional after the commencement of the provincial assembly session.

Kafeel Jafery from Shah Faisal Town told the house that four FIRs had been lodged against his three sons. He said one of them was a 15-year old boy, against whom the police had lodged an FIR for threatening somebody with a weapon, whereas there was documentary proof that the boy was admitted to the Civil Hospital on that day

He said the police had apprehended his elder son Faisal Jafri, who was a serving ASI. He said the police had arrested him on the basis of an FIR lodged in 1994 against 21 persons, one of them was a man named Shakil, with his fathers’s name unmentioned in the FIR.

The session approved five resolutions.—PPI