KARACHI:
Three police officials were suspended on Thursday following the death of a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Waseem Dehlavi, in police custody, according to local media sources.
Sindh IG Ghulam Haider Jamali suspended Inspector Malik Adil In-charge Special Investigation Team East, Inspector Chaudhry Zafar and Assistant Sub-Inspector M Aslam of the Aziz Bhatti police station.
Dehlavi was reportedly tortured to death by police personnel at the Aziz Bhatti police station on Wednesday. The post-mortem report confirmed that Waseem died due to cardiac failure resulting from a head injury.
Meanwhile, a murder case has been registered against the personnel at their own police station on the orders of Sindh IG Ghulam Haider Jamali.
Dehlavi, a father of three and an employee of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, was arrested along with two of his brothers during a raid at his house in Muhajir Camp, Baldia Town, on Tuesday morning. “Police personnel in plain clothes barged into our house and arrested them in front of the entire neighbourhood,” said his teary-eyed widow outside the hospital. “No inquiry committee can return my husband. The perpetrators should be killed in the same manner that they killed my husband.”