SARGODHA/MULTAN: Muzaffargarh’s Awami Raj Party leader, Jamshed Dasti, was shifted to Sargodha jail due to security concern on Wednesday night.
Jail authorities informed on Thursday that Jamshed Dasti has been shifted to district jail Sargodha from Muzaffargarh district.
Jamshed Dasti was presented in the court of District Sessions Judge Sohail Akram this morning.The judge adjourned the further hearing of the case till July 3.
‘SUBJECTED TO FORCED STARVATION, TORTURE’: Dasti, who was remanded for six days to police custody on June 23, has alleged that he is being tortured and starved by the police in the Multan Central Jail.
In a video broadcast on Thursday, Dasti was apparently broke down while pleading for help. The seemingly agitated Dasti claimed that he had been severely beaten by police and deprived of food for six days; the rats and scorpions were often released into his jail cell.
“As soon as I got out of jail, they caught me again,” he added, referring to the events preceding his arrest.
Last week, Dasti had been arrested by the police minutes before he was scheduled to be released from Multan Central Jail after an anti-terrorism court approved his bail application in a different case.
A Muzaffargarh police team had arrested Dasti in a case Civil Lines police had registered against him back in his hometown. Additional District and Sessions Judge Shahbaz Ahmed had allowed six-day judicial remand of the accused. Dasti alleged that he had been framed and false cases had been registered against him.
Appealing to the CJP to take notice of his ill-treatment, Dasti added that his sister was battling with stage-three cancer and his mother was also unwell.
“This is a democracy; we are no longer under the rule of [Gen Parvez] Musharaf,” he lamented.
Take the suo motu notice and call me [to court],” Dasti said, requesting the CJP and Lahore High Court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.
Dasti was arrested by district Muzaffargarh police over charges of threatening the district administration and water theft cases u/s 382/353 and 506-B/430.