Private detention cell unearthed in Quetta

QUETTA: Police have unearthed a private detention cell, run by a police constable with the coordination of some other people in the provincial capital and recovered four youngsters from the cell.

Officials said here on Sunday that police have received information about the presence of a private secret detention cell run by a police employee in Hazara Town area, a locality on the outskirts of Quetta city.

A police team was constituted by SP Saddar Shoukat Ali Mohmand headed by Mehmood Khorti, SHO Brewery police station which conducted a raid at the house in Hazara Town Block 33 and found four young people detained in a room of the house. Police arrested three accused from the house who were identified as Wajahat Kandahari, Ali and Nadir Ali while the police constable Sanaullah was already arrested.

Police said that the private detention cell has been run by a constable for a long time along with three other people. Four young people who were recovered by police from the cell told police that Sanaullah and his companions’ had arrested them and were kept in the cell three day back. They badly tortured them during detention for putting pressure to confess that they were thieves. They also claimed that in the cell the accused tried for sexually assault them.

Sources said that the accused Sanaullah and others had been running the private detention cell since long for blackmailing people, especially youngsters. More arrests are expected in this regard.