KHAIRPUR, Nov 30: A team formed on the directives of the secretary for health continued its inquiry into complaints by nurses about police torture. The inquiry team, headed by Sukkur EDO Hafeezur Rehman Shaikh, on Wednesday recorded statements of nurses of the Khairpur Civil Hospital.

The nurses accused police of baton-charging them, using teargas and tearing their official uniforms while they were staging a peaceful protest against the transfer of the principal of the Khairpur Nursing School on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Khairpur hospital civil surgeon Dr Ghulam Shabbir Shaikh has alleged that whenever police resort to highhandedness they shift responsibility to others to save themselves.

Talking to journalists on Wednesday, he said he was in Pir-Jo-Goth when the incident had taken place.

He added that after his return, he was talking to the protesting nurses in his office when police started baton-charging nurses and firing teargas shells, injuring some nurses.