Category: Custodial killing
Court summons Kasur jail staff
Torturing death row convict KASUR: The District and Sessions judge Thursday summoned the Kasur jail staff for torturing a death row convict. According to complainant Atif Farooq of village Qaisar Gar, on October 20 Kasur jail Deputy Superintendent Tahir Majeed and Assistant Superintendent Muhammad Ashfaq severely tortured his brother Mazhar Farooq on the behalf of […]
PPP-SB plans Sindh-wide protest on 17th over ‘custodial killing’
HYDERABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) has announced a province-wide protest on Oct 17 against the “extrajudicial” killing of the brother of a senior party activist. Niaz Khaskheli, the brother of Hyderabad PPP-SB vice president Irshad Khaskheli, was shot dead by the Bhitai Nagar police in what they claimed to be an encounter with […]
Murder accused dies in Sargodha Jail
SARGODHA: An accused for murder crime, imprisoned in Sargodha District Jail was mysteriously found dead on Saturday morning. Jail sources said that accused Mumtaz Hussain, a prisoner of murder case in Shahpur Jail Sargodha slept at night and in morning was found death when tried to awake him. Some sources claimed that the death was outcome of […]
UTP beaten to death in Hyderabad jail
HYDERABAD: A undertrial prisoner (UTP) of the Hyderabad central jail was beaten to death by another UTP over some petty issue early on Monday, jail police said. Jail Superintendent Zia-ur-Rehman said that a fight took place at the security ward No-8 of the jail between two UTPs — Altaf Khaskheli, 20, son of Foto Khaskheli, […]
Notices issued to SSP, three SHOs in ‘custodial killing’ case
SUKKUR: The Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, on Thursday heard the plea of a woman for the recovery of her husband, son and daughter-in-law from the custody of a Sukkur-Shikarpur police team that is accused of having killed her another son and his two friends in a fake encounter earlier this month. The court issued […]
Rights body to take up student’s torture case
FAISALABAD: The National Commission on Human Rights, Pakistan, has decided to take up the issue of police torture of MSc (hons) degree holder Sheraz Nawaz. Punjab Medical College Associate Professor (Forensic Medicine & Toxicology) Dr Khurram Sohail Raja, adviser to the commission on torture cases, told Dawn that it’s a typical case of police torture. […]
