Local journalist booked for revealing about police torture cell

Mandi Bahauddin( Sher Gondal): Police old culture still prevails and there is no let up in registering false cases and using third degree techniques of torturing innocent citizens by police for ulterior motive, said Rahila Khanum Advocate while talking to media persons here at her office the other day.

She said her husband Shahzad works as editor of a local daily. He published a news item regarding running of secret torture cells to terrorize suspects to get confession. This annoyed Sadar Police who on 10-9-15 in broad day light raided her office located on Railway Road and after abducting Shahzad took him to some unknown place, she alleged.

She stated that police tortured her husband with burning cigarettes, hot rods and gave him electric shocks as well. When he fainted they registered false case against him under 506 PPC / 25 D and got him admitted in DHQ Hospital when his condition turned precarious. She said that thereafter police informed her about the FIR. She reached hospital and on her application through Alaqa Magistrate her husband was medically examined. The medical officer advised her to take him to Lahore for treatment. As per medical legal report her husband received 15 injuries and among them some kept under observation.

She pleaded that her husband is innocent but police implicated him in false case and tortured him without any legal or moral justification. She appealed to CM Punjab for ordering judicial inquiry in case of torturing her husband and implicating in false case. When asked she told that SI Bashir Bosal and SHO Sadar with other police officials tortured her husband.