MARDAN: Residents of Canal Road area here on Saturday demanded of the police high-ups to take stern action against SHO and other officials of Hoti police station for subjecting them to torture and implicating them in a false case.

Speaking at a press conference, the residents, most of them college students, said they were on their way back home from a banquet in a rickshaw on Masri Abad road when sub-inspector Khanzeb Khan along with three cops intercepted the three-wheeler, brutally beat them up and took them to the police station. There, they said the police charged them in a false case.

The college students, who identified themselves as Shehbaz, Abbas, Mohammad Tahir, Akhtiraz, Mohammad Abbas, Afaq and Abid Ali, alleged that they were locked in a room of the police station and were severely tortured by the officials on order of the SHO.

Published in Dawn, December 4th, 2016