Three cops remanded in custody.

PESHAWAR -- A local court on Thursday granted the police two days physical remand of the three constables held for stripping and torturing a suspect in custody.

Zairullah, Naeem and Tauseef were produced before judicial magistrate Farooq Shah at the Peshawar Judicial Complex in an armoured personnel carrier amid tight security checks.

Lawyers turned up before the court in large numbers, including president of Peshawar District Bar Association Akhter Biland Khan.

They opposed the physical remand of the accused and said the police had tried to save them by not including proper sections of the law in the FIR, including those dealing with cyber-crimes.

The FIR was registered at Tehkal police station on Wednesday after two video clips of the police torturing and stripping suspect Radiullah alias Amirae went viral on social media causing a public outcry.

Inclusion of cyber-crime in FIR ordered

District public prosecutor Fazal Noorani on Thursday took notice of the non-inclusion of the relevant sections in the FIR and ordered the police to include those provisions.

He directed the police to include Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016, Section 20 (offence against dignity of a person), Section 21 (offence against modest of a person) and Section 24 (cyber stalking) and Pakistan Penal Code Section 166 (public servant disobeying law to cause injury to a person) and Section 342 (wrongful confinement) .

The DPP also formed a two-member committee to supervise the case. The committee comprises senior public prosecutors Sangeen Shah and Rafiullah.

Meanwhile, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial police officer (PPO) told a Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday that initial inquiry into the stripping and torturing case had also pointed out the role of Peshawar's senior superintendent of police (SSP) in it, so he was removed from his post on Wednesday night.

Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Mohammad Naeem Anwar directed provincial police chief Dr Sanaullah Abbassi to ensure the booking of the culprits under the relevant laws.

'We have seen in such cases that the police officials often try to spare their accused colleagues. However, such practice should not be repeated in this case,' Justice Qaiser Rashid...