Judicial commission made to probe custodial torture.

PESHAWAR -- The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday appointed a single-member judicial commission to investigate the stripping and torture of an accused in the custody of Peshawar police.

The appointment of Justice Lal Jan Khattak of the Peshawar High Court was notified by the home department after the Peshawar High Court named him as the presiding officer of the commission.

On Wednesday, the videos of Radiullah alias Amiray's custodial torture led to a social media outrage and protests across the province.

The notification said, 'the provincial government in consultation with the high court's chief justice had been pleased to appoint Mr Justice Lal Jan Khattak as the single-member commission to conduct inquiry and ascertain the facts and circumstances of the incident of the alleged inhuman and brutal torture of Mr Radiullah by some officers of Peshawar police and making his naked video viral on social media with an immediate effect.'

It will fix responsibility, make recommendations to prevent such incidents

The commission's terms of reference said it might inquire into and determine root causes and facts of the incidents.

The commission will also fix responsibility for the incident, determine institutional lacunas in the system leading to such incidents, and make recommendations to avert such incidents in future.

The notification said the commission would initiate the inquiry at a place on a date to be fixed by it and share its findings in form of a report to the provincial government preferably within 15 days once the proceedings were so initiated in terms of the notification.

The commission will have powers under the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 for summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person including officers/officials and examining them on oath, requiring the discovery of and production of documents, receiving evidence on affidavits, examination of witnesses, documents and requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court or office.

The home department had written to the PHC registrar on Friday, requesting the court to appoint one member judicial commission under Section 3 of the West Pakistan Tribunal of Inquiry Ordinance, 1969, to ascertain the real facts of the incident, fix responsibility and make...

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