NAWABSHAH: A court in Nawabshah has ordered registration of a case against the police team over alleged killing of a suspect in its custody and portraying it as an encounteron June 29.
The order was issued after Hajian Chandio, the mother of suspect, ljaz Ali Chandio, filed an application alleging that the then SHO of the B-Section police station Mir Hasan Bangwar and his subordinates had murdered her son in their custody.
She alleged that the police team had taken him away from their home during the night intervening June 25 and 26. ‘They did not allow her and other family members to meet my son to ascertain charges against him.
Three days later, we were informed that he was killed in an encounter,’ the applicant stated in her application.
The court issued directives to the incumbent SHO of the B-Section police station to record the applicant’s statement and register an FIR against the former SHO, Mir Hasan Bangwar, and the police team that had killed ljaz Ali Chandio in the alleged encounter. The court also directed the SHO to proceed with further legal action in accordance with the law.
Quest student found dead A first-year student of the Quaid-i-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology (Quest) who had gone missing three days ago was found dead in a farm near Zero Point, Nawabshah, on Sunday.
The area police and family of the deceased, Aaqib Almani, had mounted a search after his disappearance on Thursday and a missing report was lodged.
The body was finally found and was shifted to the Peoples Medical University Hospital, Nawabshah, for a postmortem examination and then handed over to the heirs, who lived in the Tharu Shah area of Naushahro Feroze district.
Protest after road accident A large number of enraged people held a strong protest against reckless driving after two speeding vehicles hit several motorcycles killing a man and injuring several others near Quest along Sakrand road on Saturday. The deceased was later identified as Aslam Khaskheli, an automobile mechanic. Three other victims suffered multiple injuries.