NAROWAL: Police registered a case against five people three weeks after they allegedly tortured two youngsters who had a quarrel during playing in the ground in Ahmedabad Town.

On June 17, Noman Ahmed (19) was playing in the ground near Mohalla Daran when local `influential` people came there and started torturing the youth and his friend with sticks.

Usman Ghani, brother of victim Noman, told Dawn that the youths had a fight while playing in the ground. He said Sohaib Mirza, an influential person, along with his accomplices allegedly tortured Noman Ahmed and his friend Syed Ali Abbas with sticks.

The suspects made video clips of the torture and uploaded them on the social media. Usman Ghani said: `We had con-tacted the police on that day for registration of case but police did not file the case despite the medical-legal report from the hospital.

He alleged that police seemed reluctant to take action against the suspects.

He said: `DSPs Imtiaz and Sheikh Ilyas summoned us and Sohaib Mirza to Narowal police office on July 8 for questioning and got a case registered against five suspects.

He said police made no arrest and the suspects were roaming freely in Ahmedabad Town and `kept threatening us with dire consequences if we didn`t reconcile with them.

When contacted, spokesman for district police Aitzaz Bashir said police had arrested the main suspect and recovered a pistol f rom his custody. Correspondent