QUETTA: Leaders of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) claimed on Sunday that about 600 party workers and other people were taken into custody during raids in Sariab area of the city on Saturday night.

Speaking at a demonstration held in Killi Chasma Achozai area on Sunday, they accused security personnel of humiliating people during raids on their houses. They said legal requirements had been ignored while taking BNP-M workers into custody.

BNP-M’s district deputy organiser Ghulam Nabi Marri said the captured people were kept in different police stations of the city.

He said the BNP-M had no objection on security forces’ action against criminals but no one should be arrested without fulfilling legal requirements. Law-enforcement agencies were not above the law and their act of

keeping people into custody without fulfilling legal requirements was against the fundamental rights of people guaranteed in the Constitution, he added.

He called for the release of innocent party workers and other people and disciplinary action against security personnel for keeping them in what he called illegal custody and for misbehaving with members of their families.

Published in Dawn February 2nd , 2015

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