Father of five girls dies of police torture in Sialkot.
A father of five daughters lost his life to severe physical torture by police at Saddar Police Station in Sialkot, reported The Asian Mirror on Friday.
According to details, the deceased, who was identified as Haji Faryad, had been in police custody since December 2, 2024. The man was a resident of the village Sohwali.
Soon after getting the report, senior police officials immediately suspended SHO Ikram Shahbaz and also issued a charge sheet against him.
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Police also registered a case against him under Section 302 and started an investigation.
Earlier in August 2024, the Lahore High Court (LHC) ruled that it was the responsibility of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to probe the allegations of torture, rape, and murder in police custody.
In a 19-page verdict on the petition filed by Zubaida Qureshi against custodial torture, Justice Tariq Salim Sheikh wrote that Pakistan had signed the United Nations (UN) convention on torture and inhuman treatment in 2010.
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“And it was because of that that a bill against custodial torture was passed in Pakistan in 2022,” the judge said, adding that in the same year the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) was assigned the task to ensure that there was no partiality in the application of the law.
