Judicial commission confirms police brutality against man
National
December 20, 2020
PESHAWAR: A judicial inquiry commission report on police brutality and inhuman treatment of a man in Peshawar had come to the fore.
Police tortured a man, Radiullah alias Amirey, stripped him naked, made his video and uploaded it on the social media. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government had formed a judicial commission to investigate the incident. Peshawar High Court Justice Lal Jan Khattak investigated the incident. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was severely criticised over the embarrassing Tehkal incident on June 24, 2020.
The commission declared the incident a criminal act and said that the inaction and failure on the part of the police to go by the book against their critics were the root-causes of the untoward incident. Neither the Police Department nor the police officials ever tried to handle the issue in accordance with the law. No report had been registered against the ma