A video showing the stripping of Radiullah alias Amir Tehkalay on the Tehkal police station premises in Peshawar had caused a social media uproar in June this year. AFP/File
PESHAWAR: The police department has terminated the services of its four officials, including two station house officers, on the recommendation of a judicial commission’s probe into the stripping and torture of an Afghan national in custody.
A video showing the stripping of Radiullah alias Amir Tehkalay on the Tehkal police station premises in Peshawar had caused a social media uproar in June this year.
The provincial government had formed a one-member judicial commission to investigate the incident.
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