Police under the supervision of the DIG Operations on Monday concluded investigation into Sabzazar Police torture case and said that the charges had been proved to be fake ones. The victim of alleged police torture, Basharat, changed his statement at Sabzazar cPolice Station, saying that he was not tortured by any policeman. As per details, DIG Operations Ghulam Mehmood Dogar visited Sabzazar Police Station in order to finalise the inquiry where he recorded the statements of arrested persons, Imran and Umer, who were nabbed by police on Sunday after registering a case against them and their five accomplices on the complaint of Basharat’s father. The DIG also recorded statements of locals, policemen and victim Basharat as well.
After completing interrogation, Dogar flanked by SP Operations Saddar Division Shoaib Khurram Janbaz and ASP Sabzazar Jahanzaib briefed media about the whole story. He said during the course of interrogation, it was proved that Imran and Basharat had a clash on the day of reported incident. He said Imran had blamed Basharat for allegedly kidnapping his son. According to the DIG, Imran came to know that his son was seen last time with Basharat over which he questioned Basharat that lead to a serious scuffle. The DIG maintained that the police party in fact rescued Basharat and took him to hospital for his medical check up. He said he had not suspended policemen for torturing Basharat but because of the delay in registering a case.
To a question that police has pressurised Basharat and his family to get the statement in their favour, the DIG presented Basharat before media. Basharat, while talking to media, claimed that he was brutally beaten by Imran and his accomplices, as a result of a conflict. To a question why Basharat and his family blamed police for torture, his father described it as his mistake and said he had found his son unconsciousness in police custody, adding that some locals suggested him to blame police for the matter and acted on their advice because he was not aware of the facts. He said police had supported him and he was quite happy from the course of investigations.
However, things went wrong once again after the briefing when Basharat and his family told media that they had withdrawn their initial statement on the pressure of police. Late on Saturday night, Basharat and his family had claimed that he was subjected to severe torture by Imran and his accomplices including officials from Sabzazar Police Station, including Sub-Inspector Ashfaq, Assistant Sub-Inspector Qaiser and Constable Ishtiaq Gujjar. However from day one, police officials were of the point of view that the police party rescued Basharat while responding to a call to 15 and that Imran and his accomplices had tortured Basharat over the allegation of kidnapping a boy.
