From Abid Usman
LAHORE: Lahore police have suspended several officials for allegedly torturing a citizen, a press release issued in this regard said Sunday.
According to the statement, a first information report (FIR) was registered at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station in Lahore against the officials concerned for torturing a citizen named Muhammad Nawaz.
The FIR says that Nawaz was brought to the police station on September 23 by three police officials, Muhammad Naeem, Ali Hassan, and Samsun. Nawaz was then handed over to trainee assistant sub-inspectors Zahir and Adil Javeed.Nawaz was then allegedly subjected to torture by the police officials with the “connivance of the Station House Officer (SHO)”, the statement said, quoting the FIR.An inquiry was subsequently launched into the matter by Lahore police and the director-general (DG) operations ordered the immediate suspension and arrest of all the officials involved in the incident.According to the statement, an investigation into the incident is underway.Earlier on September 24, the Punjab government had reshuffled six DIGs and 17 SPs in yet another effort to improve law and order situation.
It has for the first time made an SSP ranked police officer city police officer (CPO) in Gujranwala. It has appointed Grade 19 police officer Syed Hammad Abid as CPO Gujranwala, a post occupied by the DIGs since the PTI formed government in Punjab.
A notification mentioned Mr Abid as SSP of BS-19 who replaced BS-20 police officer DIG Sarfraz Ahmad Falki, the officer who had been serving in Gujranwala for the last one year or so.
