NAWABSHAH, June 14: The District Police Officer of Nawabshah issued show cause notice to the SHO of A-section police station here on Saturday after receiving complaints that police were forcing shopkeepers and restaurants to shutdown their businesses at midnight.

DPO Rukhsar Ahmed Khuhawar told reporters that neither the Sindh government nor the district government issued orders of closure of shops and restaurants in the city at midnight.

He further said that the SHO of the A-section police station, Ghulam Sarwar Zardari, was doing this for reasons of his own, for which he had been issued a show cause notice.

—Correspondent