Police tortures poor labourer to death

A Civil Court, on Wednesday, granted physical remand of three police constables for their alleged involvement in torturing a poor labourer to death in a torture cell of the Industrial Area Police Station, on September 29.
The Industrial Area Police produced three constables including Abbas Ahmed, Zahid and M Mudasar, before a court presided by Civil Judge Humayun Dilawar Khan, Islamabad .
The police sought physical remand of their nabbed fellows, to investigate them in connection with the murder of Saadat Ali. The court granted a 3-day physical remand of the accused.
On September 29, the Industrial Area Police tortured a poor labourer to death at the Police Station, for his alleged involvement in a kidnapping case, which his family had strongly rejected and contended that their beloved one had been falsely implicated.
The victim of police brutality, Saadat Ali, an employee of PWD who worked as a part-time carpenter, was tortured to death by officials of Sabzi Mandi and Industrial Area Police at the Industrial Area Police Station.
Later on, the medical board of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences confirmed that Saadat had died of being tortured.
The Industrial Area Police had to register an FIR (No.367/12) under sections 302 and 342 PPC against the SP and ASP Industrial Area, SHO Sabzi Mandi and Investigation officer of the case.
However, the SP, ASP and SHO managed to get protective bails issued from various courts and are still out on bail. However three police officials, who were refused interim bail, were arrested and the police, on Wednesday, produced them before the court. One of the accused, Gul Khan, who investigated the victim, is already in prison on judicial remand.
Narrating the background of the case, family members of the victim, told Pakistan Today that Mohammad Aslam and his teenage son Azmat worked as servants at Mujahid Khokhar’s house in Sector I-10. Azmat went missing in June this year and an application was lodged at the Sabzi Mandi Police Station, however the boy could not be traced. Mujahid hired Saadat to work as a carpenter and didn’t pay him for his work. He then implicated Saadat in a false case of kidnapping one of his servants.
Saadat’s brother, Majid Ali, in his written complaint, stated: “Aslam son of Mushtaq implicated my brother Saadat Ali in a false case (FIR No. 350/12). We, from the very beginning, cooperated with police as were innocent, but they summoned my brother Saadat Ali to Sabzi Mandi Police Station for investigation and later shifted him to the Industrial Area Police Station, where they tortured him to death.”