Dawn Reporter
Bahawalnagar: Police station Madrasa of Bahawalnagar area of Punjab filed a case against the SHO, ASI, and other officials for raiding the house of an army member and illegally detaining the citizens. Was arrested.
Provisions of dereliction of duty, and illegal detention have been included in the FIR against SHO Madrasa police station and others. The case was registered against the new SHO Saifullah Hanif.
After the case was registered, the DPO suspended the SHO and other officials involved in the incident and ordered departmental action.
The text of the FIR states that ASI Muhammad Naeem along with officials raided the house of a citizen named Muhammad Anwar Jat in Chak Sarkari on April 8, whereupon the family resisted and a policeman was taken into the room. It was closed, after which the SHO Madrasa police station Rizwan Abbas along with other officials reached the spot and entered the house by violating the sanctity of the cloak and the four walls, after which the women were also subjected to alleged torture.
According to the FIR, at the same time Muhammad Khaleel, son of Muhammad Anwar Jat, and other residents of the neighborhood gathered and locked the SHO and police personnel in the room and also made a video. The police tortured and ransacked the people in the house. After which SHO Rizwan Abbas and others were released.
According to the text, the police officers arrested Mohammad Noor Jat, his son army employee Mohammad Khalil, anti-narcotics employee Mohammad Idris and others and transferred them to Madrasa police station and registered a case against 23 people including army personnel and women. Meanwhile, the police allegedly tortured army employee Khalil, his brother Idris, father Anwar and others while in custody and did not produce any of the arrested persons in court.
