HYDERABAD, Feb 5: Market police have detained a police constable Ghulam Shabbir for misguiding senior police officials through his false information that led to a massive search operation in Civil Hospital here on Tuesday.

Shabbir contacted Hyderabad range DIG police Shaukat Shah and informed him that some people were taking corpse of a man from Swat away from the hospital, linked with a terror network.

Subsequently the DIG passed on the information to DPO Imran Shaukat and he immediately asked SPO Mohammad Yusuf and SHO Market police station to rush to the hospital.

Police conducted a search for the body, pointed out by constable and also searched other places in the casualty ward to find those people who were supposedly taking away the body.

The police constable had also told that these people also possessed explosive material.

However, despite a massive search nothing was found.

The arrival of police caused panic in hospital and scared the patients as well as their attendants.

It later transpired that the police constable had some dispute with a man, who was his neighbour, and he only wanted to implicate him.

Police detained Ghulam Shabbir. He has been suspended and was likely to be dismissed from service as well.

According to Hyderabad DIG Shaukat Shah, the police constable is, apparently, suffering from some mental disorder.

He said that his medical check-up would be conducted to ascertain his mental state.

He said he is likely to be declared unfit for police service.

Such police officers could prove to be dangerous for the department, he added.

COUPLE SEEKS PROTECTION: A newly-wed couple has sought protection against high-handedness of relatives of the girl who wanted to implicate her husband in false cases.

Addressing a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday, Bakhtawar Fatima, wife of Hassan Chandio, told journalists that she had embraced Islam on January 3 under the guidance of Mufti Ahmed Mian Barkati of Daraul Uloom Asanul Barkat in Hyderabad.

She said that her Hindu name was Soomro; daughter of Ketho Kohli.

She said that after embracing the Islam she married Hassan Chandio, son of Babu Chandio, of her own free will and without any pressure and added that the nikahnama was registered with notary public in the sessions court Hyderabad.

She said that these documents were also submitted to Kario Ganwar police SHO so that police should be aware of the fact that she is living a normal and peaceful life with her husband.

However, she said her, father and relatives Kachho, Maauji Kohli and a man, Ashraf Chandio, were issuing threats of dire consequences to the couple.

She said a false case had been registered against her husband, his brother Kareem Dino, Mashooq alias Yaqoob, and Darya Khan alias Babu.

She said she embraced Islam because it provided peace and protection.

She added that Ketho, Kaccho, Mauji Kohli and Ashraf Chandio continued to issue threats to them.