Mohammad Hashim Khan Bhurgari
BADIN, Jan 26: People of Badin are irked over human rights violation being committed by police of other districts who conduct raids for nabbing criminals but take away with them innocent people, instead.
Badin was a peaceful district but frequent raids conducted by law enforcing agencies of other districts without seeking permission or making entries in Thana record have created unrest among the residents as they fear a big clash in future.
Reports revealed that landlords and influential people take police incumbents into confidence to resort to such tactics for taking revenge from their rivals.
Three days ago, a heavy Mirpurkhas police contingent raided two villages, Noor Mohammud Mallah and Ghulam Qadir Ghirano at Ahmed Shah Morr near Seerani taluka Badin and arrested two people from each village.
Villagers complained that over two dozen policemen attacked the villages for arresting the wanted men and behaved ruthlessly with them. Villagers felt unnerved for they apprehended getting booked in false cases along with torture, insult and humiliation. They stated that the residents are peace-loving, law abiding and free from any links with the crime or criminals.
Villagers accused police of not respecting women and feared that Mirpurkhas police would murder the people it detained from their villages.
Citing another incident in the jurisdiction of Pangrio police station, people told that the bloodshed was averted by hundreds of residents of nearby villages. Even then, three people including two women were injured in police raid.
According to villagers, Naukot police with some three dozen civilians raided village Beharo Khan Chandio, taluka Tando Bago and took targeted houses allegedly at the instigation of their rivals resulting in injuries to three women.
The villagers said that they had lodged an FIR but Pangrio police refused to register crime against police incumbent showing a fight between the civilians. Villagers refuted police claim of outlaws or criminals residing in the village.
The DPO Badin could not be reached by this correspondent. Badin police said that there was no entry of Mirpurkhas police raiding the village.
SHO Pangrio, Mir Aftab told Dawn that there was no entry of Naukot police in the area. He said that an FIR had been registered according to the statement of complainant and that he did not mention the names of police personnel.