Three teenagers accuse police of excesses in Haripur

HARIPUR: Three teenagers on Thursday accused the local police of subjecting them to a severe torture and keeping them in illegal detention for four days.
Narrating the ordeal, teenagers Ali Raza, Qaiser Mehmood and Muhammad Waseem, the residents of Aslam Colony, told reporters that the policemen in civvies picked them up from their homes on September 12 on theft charges.
They said the police then took them to a building in the City Police Station where they were subjected to third degree torture for over eight hours to make them confess the robbery incidents reported from different parts of the city.
The victims said that they were later shifted to Khalabat Police Station and then to Kot Najibullah Police Station where they were also tortured.
“The policemen did not provide us food and water and even they did not allow us to get some sleep,” one of the boys alleged.
They said that when members of their families contacted the City Police Station, they expressed ignorance about their arrest.
However, they said when the media reported the issue they were implicated in a case and produced in the court of judicial magistrate on the fifth day.
The affected boys appealed to the chief justice of the Peshawar High Court and inspector general of police to provide them justice and take action against the police high-handedness.