PESHAWAR, Dec 17: The body of Tahsinullah, a student of a seminary in Akora Khattak, who went missing from outside Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi in May, was found at the Lady Reading Hospital on Saturday, his relatives said.

Talking to media persons at Lady Reading Hospital, Hussain, brother of the victim, said that Tahsinullah of Chirat Nowshera studied at a seminary in Akora Khattak. He had come to Jhangiri area where he got disappeared on Jan 8, 2008.

“Six months later we came to know that he had been charged in a terrorism case (rocket fire case) which had taken place at Kamra on Jan 14. An-anti-terrorism court sent him to jail and later acquitted him after two years on lack of evidence against him,” said Mr Hussain.

Mr Hussain said his brother had been taken into custody again and sent to Adiala Jail and was released on a court order on May 28, 2011. In the meantime, he said his family filed a petition in the Supreme Court and as a result his family was allowed to meet him somewhere in Peshawar after three months of his disappearance.

“We had no contact with him since then,” he said and added someone informed his family on Saturday morning that Tahsinullah was under treatment at Lady Reading Hospital.

“We came here but found him dead. He did not die a natural death but died due to severe physical torture as he was quite healthy at the time of our last meeting,” alleged the victim's brother, adding doctors were tight-lipped and avoided sharing any information about his death with his relatives.

Mr Hussain said his brother was 24 years old, whose body was taken to his native Chirat village for burial. Efforts were made to talk to doctors in this regard but the relevant doctors could not be approached. — Bureau Report