FAISALABAD, March 12: Rana Sanaullah lodged a formal complaint on Wednesday for the registration of a case against the personnel of an intelligence agency for kidnapping and torturing him at the behest of the rulers.

In a complaint lodged with the district police officer, the PML-N parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly said that around a dozen armed men, some in police uniform, intercepted his car (No FDU 59) on Circular Road at 8.30pm on March 8.

Headed by a major, the armed men forcibly took him to the office of the ISI, adjacent to PIA’s Faisalabad building.

His driver Abdul Majeed, secretary Tariq Janbaz and a number of passers-by witnessed the kidnapping.

The MPA alleged that his ‘kidnappers’ severely tortured him and brutally cut his hair after snatching Rs4,000 and a cellular phone from him.

Later, the kidnappers threw him on the service lane of Sargodha Road.

Kotwali police station SHO Fiaz Khan said that they had not received the complaint of Rana Sanaullah from the DPO.

Legal circles talking to this correspondent claimed that the registration of case against personnel of ISI and heads of government agencies as well as present regime would be a test case for the police.

There was no provision in the Pakistan penal code about exempting any agency of the government from the registration of criminal cases, they added.