SUKKUR: A strong contingent of police comprising personnel drawn from various police stations of Ghotki district late on Friday evening surrounded Sakhero village near Khanpur Mahar town and bulldozed about a dozen houses with the help of an armoured personnel carrier after failing to find the killers of a youth who was beaten to death after being dragged out of a police mobile van a day earlier.

The victim, Gulsher Malik, according to his family, was guiding the police team to a possible hideout of kidnappers who had held his uncle, Hassan Malik, hostage. A group of Malik community members hostile to the family stormed the police van when it entered Acher village on Thursday. They beat up the police team and also dragged out Gulsher and tortured him to death, the family said.

On Friday, a big police team led by Mirpur Mathelo DSP Arbab Soomro surrounded the neighbouring Sakhero village and carried out a house-to-house search for the attackers. However, after failing to find any of the suspects, they bulldozed their houses. The bereaved family had nominated six suspects who were booked at the Khanpur Mahar police station before launching the search operation.

Published in Dawn, August 30th, 2015

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