LARKANA, June 6: The judicial magistrate of Ratodero on Monday remanded four people in police custody for eight days for allegedly assaulting two girls. Rafiq Lashari, Aijaz Lashari, Attaullah Lashari and Zulfikar Ali Kansiro had been arrested for allegedly assaulting two sisters in the Lashari village, Ratodero taluka.

The Ratodero investigation police on Monday produced them in the court of the judicial magistrate who remanded them in police custody. The accused were sent to the judicial lockup.

The court also recorded statements of the victims and ordered to keep them at the Larkana women’s police station after they prayed for protection.

STRIKE: A shutter-down strike was observed and a procession was taken out in Naudero on Monday in protest against police for allegedly torturing a boy arrested on theft charges.

Speaking on the occasion, Nazim Nisar Ahmad Bhutto and others alleged that TPO Akil Ghulam Ali Brohi and Naudero SHO Fida Hussain Sangi had picked Yunus Memon on false charges of theft and tortured him at the police station.

The protestors demanded removal of the TPO and the SHO.

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