HYDERABAD, July 29: The Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) personnel picked-up a transporter, Mulla Rafiq, on Saturday night from the area of Bhittai Nagar police station following a scuffle with police.

Angry over the incident, Karachi-bound bus drivers blocked the Qasim Chowk by parking their vehicles on roads in protest.

Reports said that an ACLC in-charge inspector, Mehboob Sipyo, got two motorbikes off-loaded from a Karachi bound bus as he intended to get particulars of the motorcycles verified as per directives of police high-ups.

While he was busy in off-loading, Mulla Rafiq, who was operating the Qasim Chowk bus stand, arrived there and objected to it.

It led to an exchange of hot words between them. In the meantime Baldia police reached there and Rafiq was picked up as ACLC office was also located in Baldia police station.

The bus operators blocked the Qasim Chowk in protest against police behaviour.

Police used force to disperse them. The policemen removed the vehicles from the road and restore the flow of traffic.

It was learnt that Mulla Rafiq was also required in two separate cases registered at Bhittai Nagar and Cantonment police stations.

Police source said that at the police station Rafiq was beaten up for using abusive language against ACLC officials.

Later on, he was handed over to Cantonment police in the fraud and cheating case lodged under sections 506(2) and 420 PPC vide crime no 117/06 on the complaint of Aurangzeb Khan. A separate case was also lodged against him with A-section police station.

Protection against criminals sought

Relatives of a slain intermediate student, who was killed by his kidnappers in 2001, have appealed to the chief justice and president of Pakistan to provide them protection as they were being harassed by those who had kidnapped and killed their boy Abdul Sattar Sand in Matiari.

Addressing a news conference at the local press club on Saturday, Abdul Razaq Sand, Ghulam Nabi Sand, Haji Jaffar Sand, Raja Sand and Sher Jan Sarhandi said that Abdul Sattar Sand, son of Gul Hassan Sand, an intermediate student was kidnapped by dacoits and when he offered resistance, he was gunned down and a case to this effect was lodged with Matiari police in 2001.

They said two accused were nabbed while another was absconding.

They said that they were habitual criminals and people of Matiari knew them very well. They said, applications were filed against them before police authorities but no action was taken against them so far.