FAISALABAD: District Coordination Officer Noorul Ameen Mengal has rejected the `inquiry` report on police and jail officials clash, saying that a joint investigation team will probe the matter and give recommendations.

The initial report, prepared by Assistant Commissioner (Saddar) Shafiullah Khan, held the policemen responsible for torturing the deputy superintendent and assistant superintendent of the Central Jail.

The officer had concluded in the inquiry that the policemen, deployed for security of the jail, had thrashed the jail officers on being admonished for sleeping on duty while depending on the statements of dozens of the Rangers officials besides the jail staff.

`It is a one-sided inquiry and we are banking on the joint investigation team. The assistant commissioner was never asked to conduct an inquiry as a matter of fact but to visit to the place and update the DCO,` DCO Mengal said while talking to Dawn.

He said the AC did not record state-ments of police officials, making the inquiry one sided, adding that the joint investigation team was formed by the Home Department to probe the matter and make recommendations.

A police officer, requesting anonymity, said the inquiry was concluded without recording the statements of the policemen who were allegedly manhandled by the jail staff.

He said no action had been taken against any accused policemen as the department was waiting for report of the joint investigation team.

A three-member joint investigation team comprises DIG (Prisons) Faisalabad Region Shahid Saleem Baig, SSP (Operations) Ghulam Mubashar Malkan and DOC Munir Bhatti. The team held a meeting on Friday to devise a strategy for the probe.

RAJA: Former opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz has claimed that Pervez Musharraf will proceed abroad by Monday.

He told a press conference on Friday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar would be exposed after Musharraf`s departure. He taunted Nisar to resign after Monday.

He said the prime minister lacked courage to stop Musharraf and asked him to take cue from former president Asif Ali Zardari on how to deal with such issues.