HYDERABAD, April 29: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz Chairman Bashir Qureshi inquired after health of the brutalised policeman, Ali Hassan Solangi, at the Civil Hospital on Tuesday and condemned criminal negligence of the department, which he said had done nothing so far to provide justice to its employee.

He assured Solangi of full support of his party and said that justice was not only linked with judges and courts but also with the attitude of the government.

In a joint statement, Mr Qureshi, Akash Mallah and other party leaders said that a large number of prisoners, who had no relatives, had been languishing in jails for years mainly due to injustices of the system.

They said that the general secretary of the party, Dr Safdar Sarki, had also been a victim of the system. Dr Sarki’s bail application had been accepted in all the cases still he had been left languishing in jail after the superior judiciary ignored his bail applications.

RPO: Hyderabad’s Regional Police Officer Fayaz Ahmed Leghari on Tuesday assured business community of eliminating crime and said that the efforts being made by police to restore peace and order in the city would produce positive results.

He said at a reception hosted in his honour by the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry that business community had always cooperated with police in the restoration of peace and order and expressed the hope that this cooperation would continue.

He said that the criminals would be exposed and brought to book very soon. “We will eliminate all the criminal gangs operating in the city,” he claimed.

He said that efforts were being made to modernise the traffic system and with increase in police force and its reorganisation, everybody would feel the positive results.

The chamber’s president Haji Mohammad Yaqoob said that although it was not possible to eliminate crime in toto but police could at least bring down crime rate if it were vigilant. In past police had failed to unearth criminals behind some of the major crimes of the city, he said.

DIG Commander (Rtd) Shoukat Ali Shah, DPO Operation, Dr Najaf Mirza and DPO Investigation Khalid Mustafa Korai were also present on the occasion.

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