DADU, June 5: Four employees of the health department were found in illegal detention at Dadu town police station during a raid by the judicial magistrate on Tuesday night.

Syed Hassan Ali Shah filed a petition in the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, that SHO Mukhtiar Ahmed Sario and writer head constable (WHC) Abdul Rasool Siyal had detained his nephew, Syed Noor Nabi, the in charge of the stores at the cardiac ward, Civil Hospital, Dadu, without any reason and alleged that the police were torturing him.

On the directives of Justice Ghulam Rabbani of the SHC, the district and sessions judge, Dadu, ordered judicial magistrate Sikandar Amir Pahore to conduct the raid.

Noor Nabi Shah, Zahid Gurmani, Urs Bhand and Ghulam Rasool Khokhar of the Civil Hospital, Dadu, were found in illegal detention.

Nabi Shah was injured during police torture and blood was flowing from his body.

He was admitted to the civil hospital.

The judicial magistrate ordered the SHO and the WHC to appear before the court on June 6 along with record.