HYDERABAD: A shocking case has emerged in Mirpurkhas city where a woman from Punjab, who had come in search of her children, has accused the station house officer (SHO) of the Mehran police station of sexually assaulting her.
On the basis of a medical report of the victim and her complaint, an FIR (No. 471) has been registered at the Women Police Station Mirpurkhas.
As per the complainant’s video statement, she had come to Mirpurkhas to recover her children from her former husband.
She claimed that the SHO called her to the police station at 10 pm and allowed her uncle to go inside while making her wait outside. Later, the SHO, accompanied by a driver, named Javed, told her that they were going to recover her daughter.
According to the victim, she was taken in a Mehran car to a private building where the lights were turned off, and the SHO sexually assaulted her.
The woman also alleged that the SHO threatened her, saying that he would not help recover her daughter if she did not do what he said.
She said the SHO also handed her contraceptives before committing the assault.
Afterward, the SHO called her uncle back and told him the child would abe recovered the next morning, asking them to leave. The woman later informed her uncle about the ordeal.
The Mirpurkhas police confirmed that the woman’s former husband had kept the children after divorce and she had visited Mirpurkhas several times before to seek their custody.
Upon receiving the complaint of sexual assault, the Mirpurkhas senior superintendent of police (SSP) suspended the SHO Sub-Inspector Mir Khadim Ali Talpur.
The official suspension order, dated October 24, 2025, directed the SHO to report to the Mirpurkhas Police Lines.
Mirpurkhas police officials said the accused cop initially marked himself on medical leave in the daily police log and went into hiding. However, after the registration of the case on the woman’s complaint, he was arrested on Saturday.
Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar and another Minister Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah took notice of the woman’s complaint and directed the Sindh inspector general of police (IGP) to initiate a prompt investigation and register a case. Further investigations are under way.
