Police Tuesday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the Director General of the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for allegedly torturing a subordinate accused of receiving bribe. The FIR was registered on the direction of the Peshawar High Court on a plea filed by a NAB employee alleging that NAB DG Shehzad Saleem and Investigation Officer Muhammad Umair Butt tortured him over corruption charges.
On May 12, a two-member bench of the PHC ordered the registration of an FIR against them in three days for allegedly torturing a subordinate accused of receiving a bribe. They were accused of torturing another NAB employee, Sardar Gul Khitab, while he was in legal custody on the allegations of receiving bribe of Rs 200,000 from a municipal officer named Mehboob Ali in Abbottabad.
Advocate Sardar Ali Raza filed a petition in PHC in the first week of May, alleging that the suspect was being tortured by NAB officials during custody. Accepting the plea, the court ordered NAB officials to produce latest medical reports of the accused, which confirmed the incidence of torture. Announcing the verdict, Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Musarrat Hilali ruled that an FIR should be registered for a cognisable offence against the officials who tortured the accused in custody. Police have also been directed to thoroughly investigate the matter and pursue the case at relevant forums.