HYDERABAD, July 25: While two cousins of deceased Rasool Bux Brohi, Siddique Brohi and Ghulam Mustafa Brohi, have been released by Karachi police, the third person, Nazeer alias Nazru Khaskheli, who too was picked-up by a team of Lyari Task Force (LTF) alongwith Rasool Bux Brohi and Siddique, remained missing.

They alleged that they had been severely tortured by Lyari Task Force (LTF) to identify that Rasool Bux Brohi is the dreaded criminal, Mashooq Brohi.

Both the cousins of Rasool Bux Brohi told Dawn in Kotri separately that they repeatedly told LTF officials that Rasool Bux Brohi is not Mashooq Brohi but they kept forcing them to agree to the police version.

LTF released Ghulam Mustafa Brohi son of Mir Mohammad Brohi, a chowkidar at UC Bojro office in Yusuf Sahib Khan Goth which is known as Faqeera goth near new Sabzi Mandi two days back while Siddique Brohi was released on Tuesday.

They joined their family members in Qadan Shoro goth. Siddique Brohi said that he too was tortured. He said that after LTF police, all in plain clothes, apprehended him, Rasool Bux Brohi and Nazeer alias Nazru Khaskheli from the bus while they were returning to Hyderabad from Sakrand, they were taken to an office like place where he and deceased were beaten but Nazeer was not touched.

“I believe that Nazeer alias Khaskheli was in league with police because since then I have not been able to see him again.

“I also doubt that Khadim Brohi, who was our community fellow and we approached him for arranging surety amount for Rasool Bux’s interned father and brother in a murder case had played a dirty role”:, Brohi apprehended.

He said that he was later able to identify Ishaque and Ismail Lashari, both residents of Daur, district Nawabshah, who were among the team which arrested them.

“I was caught by Ishaque Lashari in the bus”, he recalled and said that both these police officers kept pressurizing him to admit that Rasool Bux Brohi is Mashooq Brohi and he was his accomplice. “The next day while I was confined in a quarter I heard it on a TV channel that LTF has claimed to have gunned down one Mashooq Brohi, who was in fact Rasool Bux Brohi”, said Brohi while weeping.

He said that when inquiry team began queries he was threatened by Chaudhry Aslam Khan not to disclose to team members that he was arrested while returning from Sakrand.

“When I was produced before a police officer I asked him whether he is superior to Chaudhry Aslam or is equivalent when the officer comforted him and asked him to disclose truth, he narrated his woeful tale and then he was shifted to some other place”, Siddique recalled.

Ghulam Mustafa Brohi said that he remembered how he was hanged with a ceiling fan for whole night. “Inspector Ismail Lashari loaded his weapon and aimed at me to tell his colleague that he will also be killed”, said Ghulam Mustafa, who was in his early 20s. He said that Chaudhry Aslam and Ismail Lashari forced him to recognise Rasool Bux Brohi as Mashooq Brohi which he refused.

He said that he was kept in chains during detention and when he was produced before a senior police officer he disclosed the facts that SP Chaudhry Aslam used abusive language against him.

Meanwhile, the whereabouts of Nazeer Khaskheli remained unknown to date. Khadim Brohi had sent-off Nazeer Khaskheli alongwith Rasool Bux and Siddique Brohi from Sakrand to arrange surety papers in Hyderabad.

So far it was not confirmed whether he and Khadim Brohi both worked for police to trap Rasool Bux Brohi.