KARACHI: A man, who was arrested in a rape case, died under controversial circumstances inside the lock-up of the Mehmoodabad police station on Sunday.

SSP-East Syed Irfan Bahadur said that the 40-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his own daughter. The police produced the suspect before a court concerned and obtained his five-day physical remand that began from Sunday, he added.

He said that the police found the body of the suspect hanging in the lock-up. He claimed that the suspect committed suicide by hanging himself with the gate of the lock-up.

He said that the police also possessed CCTV footage of the incident.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.

Police Surgeon Summaiya Syed said that the Mehmoodabad police brought the body of a 40-year-old man at the health facility and told the medico-legal officer that he committed suicide.

She said that the post-mortem examination would be carried out in the presence of a judicial magistrate later. The body was kept at the hospital’s mortuary.

Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police Riffat Mukhtar Raja took notice of the death of a suspect at the Mehmoodabad police station.

A police spokesperson said that the IGP ordered DIG-East to submit a detailed report at the earliest.

Published in Dawn, January 22nd, 2024