SHC serves notices on Sindh authorities on plea against alleged torture of former FCS chief.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday issued notices to the provincial authorities on a petition seeking constitution of a commission for a probe into the alleged torture of a detained former chairman of the Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS).

The wife of former FCS chairman Nisar Ahmed Memon aka Nisar Morai, who is facing trial in a corruption reference before an accountability court, moved the SHC and submitted that her husband was detained in the district prison Malir and when on July 26, the adviser to chief minister on prisons visited the detention facility, Morai and some other inmates had complained to him about the mismanagement of jail by the prison authorities and collection of weekly 'protection money' from the inmates.

The petitioner alleged that her husband was moved from Malir to the central prison by the jail authorities around midnight as revenge and a deputy superintendent of the central jail allegedly subjected him to torture during the shifting at the behest of the...