Half of Sukkur Police 'on guard' to protect VVIPs.

SUKKUR -- Of the 3,100 police personnel in the district, 1,700 (54 per cent) are deputed for the security of several personalities and officials in different departments.

Sukkur SSP Singhar Malik informed the Sukkur bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday when asked about the reason for the deteriorating law and order in the district.

The increase in crimes in the district was also due to the fact that Sukkur was surrounded with riverine areas from three sides and outlaws easily reached it and committed crimes, he added.

The bench was hearing a petition filed by advocate Ali Gul Abbasi on the deteriorating law and order situation in Sukkur.

During the proceeding, Justice Salahuddin Panhwar remarked that police had neither latest weapons, nor scientific knowledge or ways to curb the increasing crimes.

Justice Panhwar said: 'Ten per cent criminal cases are registered while 90 per cent are not lodged.' He adjourned the hearing till Feb 2 and directed the Sukkur DIG and SSPs in the division to submit their suggestions or strategies for the restoration and maintenance of the law and order in the district.

Provision of school building ordered The SHC Sukkur bench directed the deputy commissioner (DC) to provide a school building to 130 children in the village of Mitho Mangrio near Rohri taluka in the district.

Comprising Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Abdul Mubeen Lakho, the double bench was hearing a petition filed by one Jamshed Mangrio who sought a building for the 38-year-old primary school in his village.

Arguing in the court, petitioner's counsel advocate Prem Kumar said that a primary school had been registered 38 years ago, but a building for that institution had not been constructed since 1985 with the result that its over 130 children were being taught under the open sky. Whereupon Justice Panhwar directed the DC to provide a school building to the children till March 1. If the DC...

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