Ashrafuddin pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Complaining against the Station House Office and his assistant, Shalman residents said that police badly tortured them without any reason in police station Leoy Shalman and used immoral language for their families.
Speaking to a press conference here on Friday in Landikotal press club Fazale Malik, Ajab Sher and Muhammad Sher, residents of Prang Darra Loey Shalman, said that they had a monitory dispute with Sayed Wali and Zamir Gul residents of Landikotal.
They accused SHO Adnan Afridi and additional SHO Qadarman Shalmani that as they entered Shalman police station police started beating them.
The speakers said that without asking them for any reason some persons in plainclothes along with Adnan Afridi and Qadarman beat them with sticks inside the police station. They said their opponents had filed complaints against them but it was against the law to start hitting and torturing anyone without hearing both sides. They also levelled charges that the police officers used immoral and insulting language against them and their families.
Fazale Malik said SHO had established his own courtroom in the police station where he issued verdicts what he wanted.
The Shalman residents appealed to district police officer Salim Abbas Kalachi, capital city police officer and other high-ups to take notice of the incident and immediately transfer SHO and additional SHO from Loey Shalman police station. They also threatened that if their complaint was not entertained they would be compelled to establish a sit-in camp in itself front of the police station in Loey Shalman.
When contacted SHO Loey Shalman Adnan Afridi denied the allegations and said that Fazal Malik and two others had taken more than 40 million from the residents of Landikotal who had lodged formal complaints against them. Adnan Afridi told The News that he was not at the police station when Fazal Malik and two others visited the police station. He said on Monday they could be challan in human smuggling case.
