A citizen filed a lawsuit at the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday and demanded the police to pay Rs 1 billion as compensation for harassment.
Syed Mehmood Akhtar Naqvi filed the petition and said that he would establish a fund for providing legal aid to the people who are harassed by the police.
Naqvi said that former Customs official Ali Azhar Shah and his son, a government official, had tortured Naqvi’s driver Abdul Sattar on October 18 last year in front of his residence in the Army Housing Scheme on the Rashid Minhas Road. He said that the police registered a case against the accused on a written complaint filed by his driver.
“Following the case registration, the accused attempted to murder me, my son and our driver. He also tried to force me to withdraw my complaint,” he added.
Naqvi said that after his complaint was filed, the police arrested the accused, following which the court ordered sending them to jail on judicial remand.
However, the accused bribed Shahrah-e-Faisal Police Inspector Suhail Sulehri and Sub-inspector Adnan Khan to illegally detain them at the police station, he said.
“After saving them from going to jail, the police officials also helped the accused to file a false case against me,” he added.
Naqvi said that the case was proven false after a police investigation, but since the accused have ties with the former and the current Sindh inspector general of police (IGP), a reinvestigation was ordered.
He said that two petitions regarding the matter are pending at the SHC, and that he has been traumatised by the whole ordeal because of the actions of the senior police officials and the accused.
He cited Ali Azhar Shah, his son Karim Adil, Sindh IGP Fayyaz Laghari, former Sindh IGP Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khattak, Capital City Police Officer Saud Mirza and other police officials as respondents, and requested the court to order Rs 1 billion as compensation.
