Sikh woman dies of police torture in Pakistan
Monday, 06/10/2014
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Islamabad: A woman in Pakistan has died allegedly due to torture by police during a raid at her house, a media report said on Saturday.
Police officials entered the woman’s house in Sargodha in the country’s Punjab province to arrest her son who had contracted love marriage.
The man, however, had escaped before the police arrived.
The angry policemen allegedly tortured the woman instead, to get information about the whereabouts of her son, resulting in her death, The Express News reported.
The policemen fearing retaliation by local people fled the scene after the woman’s death.
A case has been registered against the police officials.
Police highhandedness is common in Pakistan where police system is still based on decades-old colonial era of torture and fear.
The news report also mentioned that the woman, believed to be in her 50’s was forcibly taken to the police station, where she was allegedly subjected to torture in a bid to get to tell about the whereabouts of her son.
