86-year-old gets compensation 32 years after son’s custodial death

An 86-year-old bedridden man, Mohammad Sarwar, has finally succeeded in winning a civil lawsuit against police authorities implicated in the custodial murder of his son.

Around 32 years after his son died at age 24, while in the custody of the police, he was carried onto the grounds of the Sindh High Court in a van to get the compensation check.

According to Mr Sarwar’s attorney, this was the nation’s first-ever high court ruling on a lawsuit involving a custodial death.

Despite the fact that all of the police officers were exonerated during the criminal procedures, Mr Sarwar filed a civil lawsuit before the SHC in 1991 seeking damages and compensation.
The case was decided in 2017, and the SHC ordered the provincial government to pay the plaintiff the agreed-upon sum plus 10% interest from the day the claim was filed until the agreed-upon sum. As a result, the plaintiff submitted an application for execution in 2018; however, the provincial government filed an intra-court appeal, which was also rejected in April of this year.