HYDERABAD, June 8: A judicial magistrate on Wednesday ordered medical examination of an accused in police custody after he complained of severe police torture during the course of investigation.

The judge, Shagufta Kaka, ordered the B-section investigation police to get the accused, Saif Deen alias Saifullah, 40, medically examined. She also remanded the accused in police custody for three days and directed police to submit the report of his medical examination in the court on the next date of hearing.

The detainee was taken to the medico-legal section of the Hyderabad Civil Hospital where medico-legal officer Dr Ayub Wassan examined him. “During examination it was revealed that he had suffered injuries on his chest, eyes and in the back,” said the MLO.

He said the detainee had also been examined in the eye hospital.

The accused was shifted to a lock-up in the B-section police of Latifabad after medical examination.

B-section police station SHO Salman Farooqui told Dawn that the operation wing had arrested Saifullah on June 4 in unit-6 of Latifabad for possessing one kilogramme of charas.

The accused was then handed over to the investigation wing because he was also wanted in another case.

The investigation wing police obtained his three day remand in police custody from the court of the judicial magistrate in a case of police encounter.