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SHC orders arrest of all accused for holding jirga

HYDERABAD, Sept. 22 (APP): The Sindh High Court here Friday ordered the
Jamshoro police to arrest all the suspects nominated in an FIR of rape as well as those who held a jirga to settle the issue.
The SHO Kotri police station Naek Muhammad Khoso appeared before the
court and informed that so far only one of the accused persons nominated in the FIR had been arrested.
“The police should arrest all persons who held the jirga,” said justice
Salahuddin Panhwar.
According to the SHO, a boy was subjected to rape by several persons in
Khanzada Colony in Kotri, Jamshoro district, on August 15.
He told that although the police instantly registered FIR of the
incident, the nominated persons tried to settle the issue through a jirga.