A seventh-grader dies mysteriously in police custody in Peshawar.

ISLAMABAD: A student of seventh grade, Shahzaib, died mysteriously in police custody on Sunday. Student's relatives and local people set off a protest outside the Gharbi police station, Peshawar.

According to a statement issued from the office of CCPO, the student named Shahzaib, son of Khyal Mohammad and resident of Warsak Road, was arrested on Sunday on the complaint of shopkeepers in Liaquat Bazaar for exchanging hot words and pointing weapon at them.

The police registered an FIR against Shahzaib under section 15 of Arms Act. However, later Shahzaib committed suicide inside the lockup, the statement added.

According to Shahzaib's father, his son went to the bazaar at around 2pm to make his pictures, needed for the school examination.

He said, police called him at 3pm to inform that his son was with them. He reached the police station within half an hour.

"When I reached the police station the police didn't tell me anything for three hours about my son's condition," he said, adding the police informed him later that his son had committed suicide by hanging himself with something in the lockup.

He alleged that his son died because of police torture in the lockup. He asked authorities to provide him justice as his son was treated inhumanly by police.

Relatives of the deceased student and a large number of...