LARKANA: The former SHO of the Naudero police station sentenced to two-year imprisonment on June 12 was released on bail on Tuesday.
SIP Shahid Sadiq Memon was convicted by the Fourth Additional Sessions Judge of Larkana, Abdul Haseeb Abro, after finding him guilty of torturing and damaging one eye of a vendor, Faheem Khan, in custody.
A letter issued to the Larkana jail superintendent by the additional registrar of the Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit, asked him to release the convict as he has been granted bail in a sum of Rs50,000 after he filed an appeal against his conviction.
It said that ‘this Court has been pleased to suspend the Impugned Judgment dated 12.06.2026 till final decision of main appeal and grant the bail to appellant...,’. It directed the jail chief to release appellant SIP Shahid Sadiq Memon forthwith, if not required in any other custody case or crime.
In compliance of the court order, the convict was set free on bail, the jail chief said.
The June 12 judgement of the case had mentioned that SIP Shahid Sadiq Memon is sentenced to two years in prison after he was found guilty of ‘unlawfully arresting an innocent laborer, subjecting him to torture, and causing the permanent loss of his eye’.
Complainant Faheem Khan Mehar was represented by Advocates Altaf Hussain Mirani and Riyaz Hussain Mirani.