KARACHI: The Hyderabad range deputy inspector-general, in a communication to Dawn on Saturday, clarified some points of a story that appeared on page 19 of the newspaper`s March 7 issue under caption `Extrajudicial acts by police aimed at curbing crime, says DIG`.

The DIG said the police were a `law-abiding instrument` and they could not even `think of extrajudicial tools`. Clarifying the statements attributed to him in the report, he said that `different theories and practices used by the police in different places and times were discussed in an academic context`. He claimed that the terms employed by the reporter were never used by him and that the words used in the report constituted `insinuations` and `misinterpretations`.