DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 17 Rajanpur police have registered a case against 49 officials of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) on charges of kidnapping and thrashing the station house officer and the assistant sub-inspector of the Goth Mazari police station.

A colonel, a subedar, two naib subedars and 45 unidentified FC officials are among those booked.

Muhibullah, the driver of a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-bound bus, called Goth Mazari police on Thursday night when an FC man thrashed him and his conductor over a minor issue in the precincts of Rajanpur district.

Goth Mazari SHO Imtiaz Changwani and ASI Abdul Jabbar reached the scene and tried to settle the dispute. FC Subedar Ejaz also had a scuffle with them. He made a call to the nearby FC post in Kashmoor (Sindh) and asked his colleagues to rescue him.

As a result, more than 40 FC men in uniform and plainclothes entered in the jurisdiction of Punjab, captured SHO Changwani and ASI Jabbar and took them away. Later, the FC men allegedly thrashed Changwani and Jabbar on the direction of Col Shafeeq.

Rajanpur District Police Officer Sohail said the FC men picked up police officials at 815pm and released them at 330am. He said both the policemen were now being treated at the district headquarters hospital.

He asked the FC authorities to hand over the accused to the police for legal action.

Regional Police Officer Ahmad Mubarik Ahmad said it was an illegality on part of the FC officials.

Finally, Rajanpur police registered a case against Col Shafeeq, Subedar Ejaz, Naib Subedars Safdar and Abdul Aziz and 45 unidentified men under sections 395, 353, 365-A, 355, 186, 148, 149, 224, 225 and 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

No FC man had been arrested till Friday evening when this report was filed.

FC officials could not be reached for their comment on the issue.