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Shocking video of police torture fails to stir department
 [DAWN] RAHIM YAR KHAN: A sickening video clip of police officials humiliating and torturing a young man and his veiled sister in the Sadiqabad city has gone viral, creating outrage on social media.Dawn learned Shahzad Lateef was riding a cycle of violence with his sister on Tuesday (July 19) when police constables Shabbir Ahmed and Qasim Raza with police volunteer Yaseen stopped them in Madina Town. Police officials asked them about their relation with each other. When the motorcyclists told them, that they were siblings, coppers asked them to go to the Sadiqabad City cop shoppe for further interrogation. Shehzad insisted on knowing about the reason which enraged the constables who started beating him, slapped his sister and abused them. The beating attracted a crowd there, and one of the onlookers recorded the scene and later uploaded it on a social media site. Seeing a crowd there, the coppers let them go. When Shehzad approached them for a case against their colleagues, Sadiqabad City police refused his application. Shehzad went to the deputy superintendent of police office only to learn that he busy in an operation against dacoits. Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... different TV channels aired the footage which pressurised the bigwigs. On Wednesday, Superintendent of Police Irfan Samoon suspended Shabbir and Qasim from service. Spokesperson for police Arshad Nawaz told Dawn Mr Samoon would initiate an inquiry against the police employees seen in the footage soon as currently he was busy in the recruitment process. The City station house office told Dawn that he was out of the town when the incident occurred but senior coppers were looking into the matter. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-23 |
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