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 notices to the respondents for Sept 22.

Kareemat Shaikh submitted in court that her son, Pervez, and his two friends, Punjal and Zamir, along with other family members, had been taken away by the police team in a raid on their house in Shikarpur. The three men were later shot dead in a fake encounter, she claimed.

She prayed to court that her husband, Bukhshal, daughter-in-law, Parveen, and son, Ali Sher, be recovered as she feared for their lives. She alleged that Pervez and Parveen had contracted a freewill marriage against the consent of the woman’s parents and the latter got him and his two friends killed by the police team in the name of honour.

Published in Dawn, September 18th, 2015

Category: Custodial killing