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Published 21 Aug, 2004 12:00am

SUKKUR: Judge raids police station to free man held illegally

SUKKUR, Aug 20: A civil judge from Thull, Yasin Kolachi, conducted a raid on Karim Bux police station on Friday evening and recovered Mohammad Zaman Khoso, who had been arrested and kept him in illegal confinement without any charge for the last eight days.

All the policemen including the SHO of the police station ran away when the civil judge reached the outpost conducted raid. Reports reaching here said that the elder son of Mohammad Zaman Khoso filed an application in the district and sessions court, Jacobabad, in which he stated that his father was arrested by a police party from Karim Bux police station, without any charge, and no FIR was registered till the filing of the court application, and the SHO concerned was demanding a heavy bribe for his release.

The district and sessions judge ordered the civil judge of Thull to raid the police station and recover the detainee, and also scrutinise the record of the police station. This evening when the civil judge raided the police station, Mohammad Zaman Khoso was in the lock up and there was no entry of his arrest in the police record, neither was any FIR or NC registered against him.

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