HYDERABAD: Deputy Inspector General of Police Hyderabad range on Tuesday issued show-cause notice to inspector Pir Allah Bachayo in the wake of registration of an FIR against the official, accusing him of raping a 19-year-old boy in Sehwan on Sunday.

A spokesman for the DIG Syed Pir Mohammad Shah disclosed that the inspector was required to submit his reply to the show-cause notice within seven days.

The notice stated that a case under sections 377, 506/2, 342, 337J, 34 of PPC had been lodged against the police inspector vide crime no 167/21 at Sehwan police station and he was told that he and his accomplices subjected a teenage boy to criminal assault and fled when the boy’s father caught them.

The spokesman said that police took notice of the incident after the video of the incident went viral as this had tarnished image of the entire police department.

A source in police claimed that the notice might culminate in dismissal from service of the accused if charges were proved and that was why it was issued to complete legal formalities.

Probe committee formed

DADU: Jamshoro SSP Javid Baloch on Tuesday formed a probe committee to initiate departmental inq­uiry against Inspector Pir Allah Bachayo.

The committee to be led by DSP Kashif Qadiri would conduct the probe to ascertain if the charges that the inspector had subjected the boy to rape were true.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2021

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