Category: Illegal detention
Man goes missing from ‘police custody’
Islamabad – The family of one Muhammad Ikhlaq is running from pillar to post for his whereabouts since Margalla police allegedly picked him from Karachi Company Markaz on April 12. Since then the family has no clue of his whereabouts with the police simply denying picking him but the lockup inmates confirming before the court […]
Woman alleges illegal detention of five sons, seven relatives
HYDERABAD: An elderly widow speaking at a press conference at the local press club on Saturday claimed that her hve sons and seven other relatives had been picked up by police a fortnight back but their whereabouts were not being disclosed nor were they being declared arrested. Yasmeen Siddique a resident of Mirpurkhas urged the […]
Woman threatens self-immolation
SWABI: A woman from Swabi district has threatened to set herself on fire outside the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly if Chief Minister Pervez Khattak does not direct the police to release her husband and son. Speaking to journalists on Sunday, the woman, a resident of Zaida Town, said the police raided her house last week and picked up […]
Two rescued from police custody
BAHAWALNAGAR: Two persons were rescued from police custody by a court bailiff in Chishtian on Thursday. A Chishtian Saddar police official kept Asghar and Azad, both of Jodheka Chak, at Chak Dadu police post for three days and tortured them. Iqbal, brother of Azad, moved the judicial magistrate court, and got rescued Asghar and Azad […]
Bailiff recovers man from police custody
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions court on Saturday set a citizen free after getting him recovered from illegal custody of the Nawab Town police station. Malik Ghaffor filed a habeas corpus petition alleging that the Nawab Town station house officer had been keeping his brother, Hafiz Tahir, in illegal custody for the last two […]
