Two cops booked for ‘torturing man to death’ in Bahawalpur
BAHAWALPUR: Kahror Pacca police registered a murder case against two constables for allegedly torturing a man to death. Police said the case against constables Muhammad Khan and Aurangzeb was registered on the complaint of Pitras Masih, an employee of the Kahror Pacca Municipal Committee and a resident of Church Colony. In his complaint, Pitras Masih alleged that on Aug 22, he was travelling to…
Shortly after midnight on August 22 in Bahawalpur, Kahror Pacca police registered a murder case against constables Muhammad Khan and Aurangzeb. The two constables were accused of torturing and drowning a man named Daud Masih. Pitras Masih, Daud's brother and an employee at the Kahror Pacca Municipal Committee, lodged the complaint.
On that fateful night, Daud and his family were traveling to another village. Near Jalianwala Bridge across Chhar Canal, the constables intercepted Daud and arrested him. Pitras claimed the officers searched Daud, kicked him in the abdomen when he resisted, and Daud fell into the canal and drowned. The police have not yet arrested the constables, but Lodhran police's PRO stated Daud was a suspected drug peddler who jumped into the canal to evade arrest.
Divers eventually retrieved Daud's body from the canal about 18 kilometers away from the site of the drowning.
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