Police illegally detains KU professor for six hours

KARACHI: Police in Karachi detained a professor of the University of Karachi for six hours without any charges and released him after protest by students and faculty of the university.

According to family and university sources, Prof Dr Riaz Ahmed of the Department of Applied Physics, left home to attend a meeting of the syndicate of the university, of which he is a member, but disappeared.

His wife contacted the university after which different police stations were contacted but without any clue to the professor.

After about six hours, police confirmed that they had detained the professor. His wife and relatives protested against the illegal detention of the professor. They later met him at the Bahdarabad police station. 

The professor said that he was he first kept at the Bahdarabad police station for four hours, then shifted to Bahdarabad and later to Brigade police station and then black to Bahdarabad police station.

The professor said that on the protest of the faculty and students of the University of Karachi, the police later released him.

The association of the faculty of the university condemned the illegal detention of the professor and announced to observe Monday as a black day. They demanded that the government should take action against the police.