HYDERABAD, July 2: The District Public Safety Commission has recommended action against an SHO for falsely implicating a man in a narcotics case.

The action against Tandojam police station SHO Shahjehan Lashari was recommended by DPSC chairman Masud Pervez here on Friday in the light of June 17 report of a committee, comprising DPSC members Dr Akhlaq Ahmad and Umbreen Griffen.

Mr Pervez asked the DPO, operation, to take action against the SHO under article 155 of the Police Order, 2002. In its report, the committee concluded that no one had stated during the inquiry that the man, Anwar Shahzad, was selling narcotics or was involved in such a business.

The report said Mr Shahzad's family members were also not involved in such activities. The committee said the SHO had falsely implicated the man in the case. The committee had also recorded statements of neighbours of Mr Shahzad, a shop owner, a social worker, a reporter, naib nazim of the Tandojam union council and the nazim of the Tandojam union council-11.

The witnesses said Mr Shahzad was arrested from his house and not from a canal as police had claimed. They added that the man was not involved in sale of narcotics and police had falsely implicated him.

The committee observed that even the SHO had admitted that no complaint against Mr Shahzad was on record of the Tandojam police station with regard to his involvement in narcotics business.

The DPSC endorsed the committee findings that a false narcotics case had been registered against the complainant's son. Ameena, wife of Tasawar Ali Khan Kaimkhani, a research officer at the Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, had filed the complaint before the commission on April 24, 2004, stating that on April 12, police constable Mohammad Saleem in civvies came to her house and took away her son to the police station.

She said the SHO had falsely implicated her son in a narcotics case. She had also submitted a complaint to the DIGP, Hyderabad, who forwarded it to the DPO for investigation.

Mr Kaimkhani told the commission that an SI, Sher Mohammad, who belonged to his community, wanted to marry his daughter to Anwar Shahzad. He said when he refused the proposal, the police officer got an FIR registered against his son.