report in Dawn, Dec 19th, 2020
FAISALABAD: Three former station house officers (SHOs) and as many unidentified men have been booked on charges of hurling death threats at a detained man after entering the Millat Town Police Station forcibly on Thursday.
A case has been registered on the complaint of Millat Town SHO Asif Nadeem against former SHOs, namely Zeeshan Randhawa, his father Khalid Randhawa and Naeem Adil, and three others under sections 186 and 506 of the PPC. No arrest has been made.
In the first information report (FIR), the applicant alleged that six suspects entered the police station forcibly. They went straight to the lock-up and threatened Masood Ahmed with dire consequences. Ahmed was detained in connection with a case of oil theft from the Parco pipeline, registered on Dec 11.
Earlier, the same three SHOs had been arrested by the Civil Lines police in another case in June on charges of kidnapping Ahmed (now in detention of Millat Town police) and a case was registered against them under sections the PPC, Police Order and Telegraph Act.
In the same case, the three SHOs were terminated from service after they were found guilty of kidnapping three people, including Ahmed, and receiving bribe for not killing them in a fake encounter. The SSP (operations) had probed charges against them.
Sources quoted the Randhawas as saying that they were being penalised at the behest of an inspector who was the brother of a parliamentarian. They alleged the inspector had close ties with Ahmed and he managed to implicate them in a fake case. The former policemen wanted inquiry into their case out of Faisalabad range.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1596556/three-ex-shos-among-six-booked-for-threatening-detainee
