Panchayat issues 24-hour ultimatum to police to arrest Hindu youth's killers.

SUKKUR -- Leaders of Hindu General Panchayat and Chamber of Commerce Jacobabad on Wednesday gave ultimatum to police to arrest killers of Mahesh Kumar within 24 hours, else they will stage protests and observe shutter-down strike in the city.

Panchayat president Lal Chand Seetlani and chamber's head Mir Ahmed Ali Brohi flanked by the victim's father Ashok Kumar said at a joint press conference at Jacobabad Press Club that Mahesh was killed after ruthless torture and his body trussed up in a sack and set on fire at a deserted place in Dangar Mohalla a week ago.

The torched body was identified after an entire day after which the administration handed it over to heirs and a case was registered at city police station, they said.

They said that lawlessness had become order of the day in Jacobabad where incidents of robbery and theft had become almost a daily routine. A few days back, a youth, Hafiz Iftikhar Lashari, was also injured by a gang of armed robbers when he put up resistance to dacoits' attempt to snatch his motorcycle. The youth later succumbed to his injuries, they said.

'Else they will stage protests and observe shutter-down strike in the city'

They said that police had completely failed to control lawlessness and people had been left at the mercy of criminals. The incidents of crime had shot up particularly after Jacobabad deputy commissioner started demolishing houses and rendering people homeless, they said.

Later, SSP Mohammad Tariq Nawaz met Hindu leaders at Panchayat Hall and assured them that police had reached the culprits who would be caught within a few hours, but their identities could not be made public at this stage.

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