NAWABSHAH: Shaheed Benazirabad DIG Ahmed Yaar Chauhan on Saturday constituted an inquiry committee into the alleged custodial death of a 20-year-old youth who had apparently gone missing after attending a court hearing on Friday.

A search for the youth, Sajid Jokhio, led his family to the Peoples Medical University Hospital, where his body was found in the morgue on Saturday.

The deceased youth’s brother, Mashooq Jokhio, and cousin, Murtaza Jokhio, told reporters at the morgue that while searching for him at sessions court in Nawabshah, they were told by people there that Sajid was taken away by a police team led by SHO Ghulam Sarwar Zardari of Qazi Ahmed police station.

The DIG has asked the probe team to submit its findings within three days.

Published in Dawn, May 13th, 2018