LARKANA, Sept 24: The Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit bench, on Wednesday freed two people detained illegally at Ratodero police station and ordered removing the belt and badges of the ASI Abdulullah Rahoojo.
The court took action over a petition filed by Abdul Razzak Jarwar, resident of Khanwah village near Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto, alleging that the ASI Abdullah Rahoojo along with his subordinates raided his house three days ago and picked up his close relatives Nazeer Hussain Jarwar and Jawed Jarwar.
According to petitioner, the detainees were kept in wrongful confinement and severely tortured at the police station. The ASI demanded Rs100,000 bribe to release them.
Justice Syed Mehmood Alam Rizvi appointed court official Tahir Qazi as raid commissioner with the instructions to pay surprise visit at Ratodero police station and locate the detainees. The court official found the two people kept in habeas corpus at Ratodero police station during the raid. The in-charge duty officer failed to produce any paper validating their arrest.
Both detainees were produced in the court on Wednesday where the ASI Abdullah Rahoojo of Ratodero police (operation wing) posing to be from the Investigation Wing said that they (detainees) were picked as suspects in FIR 130/2008. The court called the original papers including the ‘Riznamcha’ and diaries of the police station, which another ASI Nizakat Khokhar brought in the court saying that he was the investigation officer of the case.
Going through the ‘Roznamcha’ the judge observed that ‘extra’ paper was stitched in the original Rozamancha by the ASI Abdullah Rahoojo which was tampered with, said Nadeem Ahmed Tunio, advocate of the detainees. The judge showed it to the raid commissioner who confirmed that during the raid the paper was not present in the Roznamcha (daily diary). The record was sealed and notices were issued to the District Police Officer Larkana, the SHO Ratodero police station to appear before the court on Sept 26 and explain as to why the fictitious entries were being made in the original daily diary book. Advocate Ghulam Murtaza Awan also appeared on behalf of the detainees.