HYDERABAD, Aug 1: A judicial magistrate during a raid on police headquarters here on Friday found two police constables detained in a lockup type place. The policemen are facing a departmental inquiry.

The raid was conducted under the directives of the Hyderabad sessions judge after Wahid Bux, father of one of the detained constables, Maula Bux, filed an application before the court.

He said that his son had been in the custody of Qasimabad police in connection with an inquiry for the last 45 days and no FIR was lodged against him. He said that he was being tortured there.

The judge appointed the civil judge and judicial magistrate-6 to conduct raid on the police headquarters. During the raid he found Maula Bux and Nadeem Ranjhani in quarter guard – a lock-up sort of place where delinquent policemen are kept during an inquiry in connection with any disciplinary action.

Entries have been made about the detention of the two policemen.

The two policemen, a police source said, were facing an inquiry in connection with a house robbery. They had caught robbers following a chase and recovered Rs50,700, a cell phone and gold ornaments but they showed recovery of only Rs27,000 and one cell phone, the source added.

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