9,364 fall victims to police torture in 9 years

The reason behind the situation is very strong tribal and illegal judicial system, which is prevailing in these provinces. Because of the biased customs, victims and their family members cannot have the courage to come out and report what actually happened to them.

In many cases jirgas rather come forward to help the perpetrators and suppress the case. The nature of abuse includes 79 cases of murders, 20 Rapes, 333 illegal detentions, 256 physical torture and 55 harassment cases. The data shows that the graph of police torture/violence on people is increasing day by day.

A further analysis reveals that 416 cases occurred at police stations, 252 at work place, 66 at victims’ residence, and 52 at public places, 57 in private jails, 60 in jail and 92 cases were reported at abandoned places.

Report said that Lahore was on the top of the list with 177cases of police torture during this tenure, followed by Karachi where 45 cases were reported Multan 63, Sialkot 37, Sukkur 32, Khairpur 29, Hydrabad 25, Mailsi 18 and Gujranwala with 10 cases remained conspicuous for high rate of incidences of police torture.

Last year from January to December 2007 the nation wide reported cases of police torture were 1723.According to the reported events 1289 male, 193 females, 98 girls and 143 boys were the victim of this cruel act. The nature of abuse includes 365 cases of murders, 14 Rapes, 463 illegal detentions, 683 physical torture, and 198 cases of harassments.