NAWABSHAH: The Court of the Third Additional Sessions Judge has ordered registration of a case against the Station House Officer (SHO) A-Section police station for keeping 43 men and women in illegal confinement.

The SHO A-Section police had arrested and put behind the bars dozens of men, women and children of Daulat Colony and Bhangwar Colony who, in front of the Nawabshah Press Club, had staged a protest against drug peddlers for openly selling drugs and issuing threats to area elders for opposing their illegal narcotics business.

The police, instead of taking action against the drug traffickers, struck at the demonstrators and loaded them in police vehicles to unknown place. Later, the Judicial Magistrate and Civil Judge, Daulatpur, Khair Muhammad Solangi, visited the A-Section police station and found men, women and children, including an infant of six months, in police lockup without any entry in police register.

The court ordered the police to produce the illegally-confined people before the court following which 43 persons, including men, women and children, were presented before the court of the 3rd Additional Sessions Judge Nasiruddin Shah.

The court ordered registration of a case against the SHO A-Section on charges of keeping people in illegal confinement. The court also instructed the police to furnish application to the district police officer for further action.