HYDERABAD, June 1: The second additional sessions judge, Hyderabad, on Tuesday ordered registration of an FIR against police officials for their alleged misconduct with an applicant.

The applicant, Faqir Mohammad, had alleged that Matiari police station SHO Asghar Halepoto, police constables Ghulam Nabi Soomro and others had barged into his house on May 26 and looted Rs5,000 in cash, gold ornaments and eight goats. He said that he had also been kept in wrongful detention for 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Faqir Mohammad also submitted an application before District Public Safety Commission chairman Masud Pervez, who directed the DPO to register an FIR against Matiari TPO Sultan Chandio and submit a compliance report to him in 48 hours.

Mr Pervez said that the TPO had not appeared before the DPSC despite being severed a notice and when the complainant went to him to redress of his grievances, he asked him to withdraw the complaint. He said that the TPO had beaten up the complainant.

POLICE ORDER: Members of the National Coordination Committee of District Public Safety Commissions will meet National Reconstruction Bureau chairman Danyal Aziz in Islamabad on Wednesday to discuss recent amendments to the Police Order, 2002, which inducted MNAs and MPAs in the public safety bodies and empowered chief ministers to order transfers and postings of DPOs and Provincial Police Officers.

The chief of the Provincial Coordination Council, Sindh, Masood Pervez, told this correspondent by telephone from Islamabad that the NCC members had been invited by the NRB chairperson to discuss the amendments.

He said that members of the NCC, led by its chairperson, Hafiz Ehsan Ahmad, were scheduled to observe a token hunger strike and hold a protest demonstration outside President's House on Tuesday but the programme had to be postponed following the invitation from the NRB chief.

Mr Pervez further said that the NRB chief had been asked by the NCC officials to clarify his position on the clauses that were being amended. He added that the NCC members had reservations over the amendments as it would politicize the system.