Bailiff rescues student from police custody

TOBA TEK SINGH: A court bailiff raided on Tuesday the Gojra city police station and rescued student engineer Sajjad Haider who was being held there without any case.

Ahsan Raza, of Gojra, filed a petition in the court of District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yar Wallana that police had held his brother unlawfully. When the bailiff recovered Haider, police showed his arrest in a theft case on the amended statement of complainant of the case.

The complainant appeared before the judge and said he did not give any statement against Haider but the investigation officer got his signature on a paper.

The judge ordered immediate release of Haider and directed the district police officer to register a case against the investigation officer.

Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2015

Category: Illegal detention