KARACHI: Police have arrested six people for attacking police station while protesting against police’s allegedly torturing a citizen to death.
The suspects reportedly besieged Tasweer Mahal police station of Zaman Town in Korangi and tried to set it on fire.
Police claimed that they found the victim Abdullah unconsciously lying on the ground in a street near the police station, so they took him along with residents of the area in a rickshaw to hospital, however, it turned out that he was dead.
Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Korangi Faisal Bashir Memon said Abdullah had left home in the afternoon and around 6:00 pm he was found in unconscious condition near a mosque. Upon request of the management of the mosque, police arrived, searched the man and informed his family members, he said.
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The police officer claimed that apparently no marks of torture were found on the deceased’s body during post-mortem. However, blood samples had also been collected from stomach which would be chemically examined, he maintained.
He suspected that the man might have died because of cardiac arrest or consuming a poisonous thing.
While, relatives of the man said he had returned from Tableegh one day ago. They alleged that police tortured him to death. The victim was a resident of Ali Akbar Shah Goth, Ibrahim Haideri.
The SSP said the allegations of torture were baseless. Whereas, he said, those who attacked the police station were involved in criminal activities and drug peddling.
Police have dispersed the protestors, while Sindh Rangers has also been called in for security of the police station.
