LARKANA, March 10: Two teams of the Sindh High Court recovered on Saturday night eight men illegally detatined by police in different parts of Larkana district.
A team of the Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit bench, found three people being illegally detained at the police quarters of the Kambar police station and two in a private house on late Saturday night.
A resident of Essa Kalhoro village, Haji Qurban Ali Kalhoro, filed a petition alleging that since the last six days the Kambar police had been detaining his nephew, Riaz Kalhoro.
Mr Justice M. Afzal Soomro appointed Abid Hussain Qazi as the raid commissioner.
The raid commissioner along with a team arrived at the Kambar town on Saturday.
However, the police had somehow come to know about the team’s arrival so they quickly shifted the detainee elsewhere.
However, the raid commissioner stayed there and on late Saturday night around 11pm he raided the Kambar police station but did not find Riaz Kalhoro there.
Later, he searched the quarters of the investigation team adjacent to the police station and discovered that three men — Ashique Ali Khaskheli, Barkat Ali Khaskheli and M. Soomar Daudani — were being detained there without an FIR.
He then raided the house of a man, Haji Mashooq Larik, in the Ali Khan locality of Kambar town and found Riaz Kalhoro along with another man, Noor Hussain Gopang, being kept in illegal confinement.
The raid commissioner took both of them to the police station where they told him that they had been tortured by the ASI, Miran Khan Durrani.
The duty officer, Ali Murtaza Chandio, failed to show any entry in the register or even a complaint against justifying the arrests.
The raid commissioner ordered the in charge of the police station to make sure that the SHO, Abdul Fatah Bhutto, and ASI Durrani appeared before the court on March 11 along with the five detainees and explain about their illegal arrest.
In another incident a raiding party of the Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit bench, discovered three people being kept in illegal confinement at the Civil Lines police station on Saturday.
A resident of Manzoorabad, Rahim Khan, had filed a constitutional petition through his advocate, Nisar Abro, alleging that on March 6 the SHO, Civil Lines, along with a dozen policemen raided his house without any search warrant.
He harassed the womenfolk and took away a suitcase containing jewellry, clothes and Rs5,000 in cash. He arrested a man, Anisur Rehman.
The SHO refused to release the arrested person and demanded that Rs15,000 be given for his release, said the petitioner, and added that despite approaching the DPO the matter remained unsolved.
Mr Justice M. Afzal Soomro appointed Gulzar Soomro as raid commissioner with instructions to locate the detained man.
Before the raiding party could arrive at the police station, the detained man was shifted to an unknown place.
When police felt that the danger was over they brought back Mr Rehman to the police station.
However, the raid commissioner immediately raided it and not only found Mr Rehman there but also two others — Mazhar Palejo and Munawwar Sangi.
The official in charge of the police station failed to produce any valid document proving the arrest of the three men.
One of the detainees told the raid commissioner that the police had severely tortured him and had poured limewater into his nostrils.
The raiding team asked the SHO and in charge police station to appear before the court on March 11 along with the detainees and documents showing as to why they were being detained.
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