LARKANA, Oct 20: The division bench of the Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit, on Thursday ordered registering of an FIR against the SHO of Mehar on the charges of torturing Aghar Ali Khoso and keeping him in confinement.

The petition was filed by the father of the boy, Ahmed Khoso, a resident of the Shahbaz colony.

The division bench comprised Justice Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Maqbool Baqar.

Barrister-at-law Abdul Rehman Bhutto appeared on behalf of the Child Rights Committee.

He said that the SHO along with few other policemen in civvies barged into the house of Khoso on October 12, 2005, and arrested Asghar Ali.

The SHO, however, showed the arrest on October 17, Mr Bhutto said.

The boy in his statement alleged that the SHO had brutally tortured him.

The bench asked the Dadu DPO to register a case against the SHO and referred the boy to the medical superintendent of the Chandka Medical College Hospital for check-up.—BoC