A court bailiff on Monday recovered four boys brutally tortured and illegally incarceratedBook 'im, Mahmoud!
at a private torture cell of the Samanabad police.
Yaqoob of Chak Jhalandar filed a writ petition with Additional District and Sessions Judge Qaiser Nazir Butt submitting that police had set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
his son Ali Raza and his nephew at a private torture cell without any case. He said the police had taken them into custody when they were at a public park in Samanabad.
The judge deputed bailiff Najam who raided the outhouse pointed out by Yaqoob in Gulshan Colony, Samanabad, and rescued Ali, Shahid, Waseem and Shakil. The boys were placed in durance vile
Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up!
in a room with iron chains on their legs.
A constable, Adil, and a Razaakar, Shafaqa, were deployed to keep an eye on the boys.
| The Urdu word razaakar literally means volunteer. According to Wikipedia, it has an additional layer of meaning in Bangladesh. |
The boys were produced before the court in chains. The judge did not allow unchaining the boys till the arrival of Iqbal Town SP Shakirullah Dawar. The judge released the boys and ordered their medical examination as they showed torture marks to the court.
The court also ordered registration of a case against Samanabad police SHO Sub-inspector Maghfoor Ahmed.
Talking to news hounds outside the court, the boys said coppers had been subjecting them to severe torture tagging them as
robbers. They said some private people used to torture them at the outhouse. They showed torture marks to the media too, and said police forced them to confess snatching of cycle of violences.
Police said the boys were robbers and they had confessed to snatching of two cycle of violences during investigation.
The Iqbal Town SP told the media that an inquiry into the issue had been initiated.
The coppers were furious and tried to hide torture from the media.
When the boys were being brought outside the court, some of the constables thrashed Farhanullah, cameraman of a private TV channel, as he tried to film the private people who had allegedly been torturing the youngsters.
| Because no encounter with the legal system of Pakistan would be complete until there had been a thrashing. |