Lahore Police has filed a first information report (FIR) against several teachers, for allegedly beating a student to death, ARY News has reported.
The FIR was registered after the victim’s father, Wajid Hussain, lodged a complaint at Badami Bagh Police Station Lahore. As per the complaint, the 14-year-old Hamza died after being subjected to corporal punishment by his teachers.
The complaint further states that the father found his son in an unconscious state as teacher Mohammad Majid, along with his colleagues, subjected him to torture. The student was rushed to Mayo Hospital and he died there two days latter.
As per details, the accused have left the area and the police is trying to locate them.
Police have arrested a seminary teacher accused of raping and torturing a student in Rawalpindi’s Pirwadhai.
As per reports, the Pirwadhai police registered a first information report (FIR) against Mufti Shahnawaz Ahmed on the complaint of the victim’s father. He has been booked in another case for resisting arrest.
He had gotten pre-arrest interim bail from the relevant court to avoid arrest.
Rawalpindi Police wrote in a tweet that the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Investigation and Superintendent of Police (SP) Rawal will supervise the probe, while merit will be ensured. The victim’s father stated that he had received a phone call from the management of the seminary, asking him to pick up his daughter who had fainted.
پیرودھائی کے علاقہ میں مدرسہ کی طالبہ سے زیادتی اور تشدد کا معاملہ۔
راولپنڈی پولیس نے ملزم مفتی شاہ نواز احمد کو گرفتار کر لیا۔ سی پی او محمد احسن یونس کی ہدایات کے مطابق SSP انویسٹیگیشن اور SP راول تفتیش کی براہ راست نگرانی کریں گے۔ میرٹ پر تفتیش مقدمات کو یقینی بنایا جائے گا۔ pic.twitter.com/udtPaaHx4L
ملزم مفتی شاہ نواز احمد کو مقدمہ نمبر 893/21 بجرم 212/224 ت پ گرفتاری سے بچنے کے لئے مزاحمت کے مقدمہ میں گرفتار کیا گیا ہے، ملزم نے امروز 376/511 کی دفعات کے مقدمہ میں عبوری ضمانت کروائ تھی۔ تاہم تفتیش کے دوران 377 بی اور (II) 506 کا معاملہ سامنے آنے پر دفعات ایزاد کی جا رہی ہیں۔
The young girl told what had happened after she regained her consciousness saying the teacher had been trying to harass her for the past several months.
She said that the teacher tortured her after she resisted his attempts of sexual harassment. She was then given a drug after which she fainted and didn’t remember what happened after that, the complainant said.
A 14-year-old student of Grade 7 was found dead in police custody in Peshawar on Sunday. According to the police, Shahzeb was arrested on Sunday after a fight with a shopkeeper and a weapon was recovered from him. The police claimed that the youth later committed suicide in the lockup. An alleged CCTV footage of his suicide is also doing the rounds on social media.
On the other hand, Shahzeb’s father said his son had gone to get his pictures taken around 2 pm on Sunday as he needed them for his school. He said when he reached the police station after he got a call that his son had been arrested, the police did not tell him for three hours about his son’s condition. He believes that his son did not commit suicide but died due to police torture.
A teenager has died while in Police custody in Peshawar. Police arrested him a day earlier for not carrying motorbike documents. This needs thorough investigation to ascertain the cause of his death. His father here narrates details of the case.#JusticeForSHAHZEBAFRIDIpic.twitter.com/9abeEjYKqX
Responding to the incident, Peshawar CCPO said that “in view of the tragic young death, the entire staff of the respective police station has been suspended, [an] FIR registered and responsible staff arrested.”
The CCPO added that he has also requested a judicial inquiry into the matter. Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police (IG) KP has said that he will monitor the incident himself.
In view of the tragic death of young Shahzeb, the complete police station staff has been suspended, FIR registered, responsible staff arrested and judicial inquiry requested.
— Capital City Police Peshawar (@PeshawarCCPO) March 14, 2021
Meanwhile, Special Assistant to Chief Minister KP on Information and Public Relations, Kamran Bangash has said that CM KP Mahmood Khan has ordered a judicial inquiry into the tragic incident and is monitoring the situation personally.
He added that he and Deputy Speaker Provincial Assembly Mahmood Jan met with the family of the deceased and offered condolences on behalf of the government.
Video report of the incident:
Incidents of police brutality are not uncommon in Pakistan. Earlier in January 2020, five officials of Islamabad Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) were arrested after they gunned down a 21-year-old boy, Usama Satti, in cold blood near Srinagar Highway, G-10 sector in the federal capital.
