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SC issues notices to Sindh AG, PPO in murder case

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Sindh advocate general (AG) and provincial inspector general in a murder case, directing them to submit a report before the court in Karachi on November 24.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo motu action on a news report about the brutality of men in district Khairpur Mirs, who deprived a young man they had abducted of his eye and later murdered him when they did not receive a ransom. Taking another suo motu notice of a news report, the chief justice also sought comments from the Sindh Prisons IG and the provincial IG on November 30 on the death of a prisoner in Hyderabad jail.

It was reported that Ghulam Ali, a police constable, had been jailed in a murder case in 1993 and was repeatedly tortured by the police and the torture eventually claimed his life. Conducting another suo motu hearing, the chief justice directed the Sindh IG to submit a report on November 30 regarding an alleged staged encounter by Sanghar police, in which a villager, Allah Dino, was murdered.

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