12 cops sacked for 'murdering youth

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - The district police officer on Sunday suspended all the officials of CIA Sialkot police - three sub-inspectors, two ASIs and seven constables - for allegedly torturing a youth to death on Friday here. Talking to the newsmen, DPO Bilal Sadiq Kamiyana said that a departmental probe had also been ordered against the suspended police officials including SI Nisar Khan and Constable Tahir Mehmood, who were nominated in the FIR lodged with the Hajipura police station. The DPO revealed that the suspension of the accused police officials was made after taking a notice of the alleged brutal assassination and custodial killing of Muhammad Rizwan (23) through physical torture by the CIA police Sialkot.

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