LARKANA, Nov 30: A Jirga, held here on Friday, imposed Rs500,000 fine on former police inspector Ghulam Abbas Gadhi, after he admitted that Mukhtiar Ahmed Brohi, who was allegedly involved in a robbery case, died in his custody.

Gadhi refused to accept that he tortured the victim. He told the Jirga after the police handed over Mukhtiar to him, he kept him at his quarter, where he died.

According to the Jirga verdict, the police inspector will go to the house of the deceased to beg pardon for the crime and to make half payment of the fine amount.

Mohammed Anwer Brohi, the brother of the victim, after hearing the verdict, opposed it and left the jirga in protest. However, he was brought back and he accepted the decision.

Mohammed Amin Mengal presided over the proceedings of the jirga, held at the Mengal House. Raees Tharo Khan, Dr Mehboob Shah, Ali Hassan Brohi, Sathi Khan Umrani and Mohammed Ishaq played the role of arbitrators.

Mukhtiar was tortured to death at the Civil Lines police station on May 13 after he was picked in a robbery case.

The incident triggered a protest campaign, during which the then DPO, Larkana, Ghulam Nabi Memon, ordered registration of a murder case on the complaint of the heirs of the victim.

Three police inspectors — Ghulam Abbas Gadhi, Fida Hussain Chandio and Sarfraz Paichuho — were nominated in the FIR, registered with the Civil Lines police station.

Since then the police inspectors were absconding.

In September, a jirga was held, in which two of the inspectors, Chandio and Paichuho, participated. Both were fined to the tune of Rs250,000 each, to be paid to the brother of the victim.

In the meantime, inspector Gadhi was dismissed from police service.

He contacted the relatives of the victim for reconciliation, after which the Friday jirga was held.

RALLY: A rally was staged here on Friday by the Sindh Syed Association (SSA) against the killing of Syed Anwar Shah, president, SSA, Jacobabad, who was also the Jacobabad taluka president of the Pakistan People’s Party.

The leaders of the SSA, Dr Syed Mehboob Shah and Dr Syed Ali Serwar Shah led the procession, that emerged from the Doctors Colony.

After marching on main roads of the city, the protestors held a demonstrated outside the local press club.

Speaking there, Mehboob Shah severely criticized the Jacobabad police for failing to arrest the killers of Anwar Shah.

He said that the deceased was the fourth murdered person in his family but despite knowing it, the Jacobabad police was not taking the murder case seriously.

The activists of the Primary Teachers Association and the Sindh National Front also joined the protest and called for capital punishment to the killers.

Meanwhile the PPP, Larkana district, in a statement issued here on Friday, condemned the killing of Anwer Shah and urged the government to provide security to the bereaved family.