Bahawalnagar: SHO, ASI and other officials were arrested after registering a case of raiding the Chak Sarkari and keeping citizens in illegal detention by Madrasa Police Station of Bahawalnagar area of Punjab.
Provisions of dereliction of duty, 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.
The police also prevented the release of the medical report of the tortured Pak Army soldier Khalil Jutt and others, after which on April 10, a large number of soldiers from the government agency (Army) reached the First District Hospital Police Service Center and there. The police officers were tortured and arrested, then the doctor was taken away.
After that, a heavy contingent of government personnel arrived at City A Division police station and after taking control, severely tortured the arrested SHO Rizwan Abbasi, Muhammad Naeem and other policemen. DPO) Naseebullah Khan and Deputy Commissioner Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhawan reached the police station.
Both of them reached the police station and held talks, then the army men sat in the vehicles and started back, after that the rescue teams reached the police station from where the injured policemen were transferred to the district hospital emergency. Later RPO Bahawalpur reached Bahawalnagar and met Commander 57 Brigade along with DPO, Deputy Commissioner.
After settling the matter, the said officers reached the district hospital and visited the injured. After which the matters were resolved amicably and then the Punjab Police also issued a press release.
A police statement said that a joint investigation has been conducted and the matter has been resolved amicably.
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