Category: Custodial killing
Four policemen held after MQM worker’s custodial death
KARACHI: Four policemen were arrested and two senior police officers suspended after a Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker died in the custody of the Aziz Bhatti police, officials said on Wednesday. “Four policemen of the Aziz Bhatti police station have been arrested as a post-mortem examination of the body conducted at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre […]
MQM protests activist’s death in police custody
KARACHI: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist died in police custody on Wednesday, drawing a scathing response from the party which claimed that he was tortured to death and announced a two-day shutdown of Karachi to mourn the ‘extrajudicial killing’. On the chief minister’s orders, the SHO and other policemen of the Aziz Bhatti Police […]
Tortured to death: Political worker killed in police custody
KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Waseem Dehlavi, was tortured to death by police personnel at the Aziz Bhatti police station on Wednesday. The post-mortem report confirmed that Waseem died due to cardiac failure resulting from a head injury. Meanwhile, a murder case has been registered against the personnel at their own police […]
Cops booked, suspended over ‘death in custody’
BAHAWALNAGAR: The alleged death of a man in police custody sparked a massive protest here, while three policemen were suspended and the A Division police lodged a first information report against them on the complaint of the victim’s brother. Saddar Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ismail Mohal had arrested Iftikhar alias Goga around two weeks ago over […]
Torture
A man died of alleged police torture in the lock-up of the Cantonment Police Station. Police had arrested the suspect, identified as Azam, in an abduction case. During investigation, police claimed, the suspect suffered a heart attack and he was rushed to the emergency ward of the Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) where doctors pronounced him […]
