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(a) Constitution of Pakistan (1973)--- ---- Art. 14 --- Inviolability of dignity of rnan --- Police torture --- Diarljt~ of citizens 'is guaranteed by the Constitution and no citizen can be subjected to torture by the Law Enforcing Agencies charged with the duty to protect citizens --- Modem development of criminology has revolutionised the system*of treatment, of the accused and the old brutal treatment has given place to more humane one--­Torture of all kinds is prohibited by law and the persons allegedly involved in crimes have to be treated like human beings and the police who is duty bound to protect citizens cannot be allowed to themselves perpetrate acts of inhuman torture upon persons in their custody --- Primary duty of police is to detect crime and bring the criminals before the Court of Law and not to punish them themselves. (b) Constitution of Pakistan (1973)--- ---- Arts. 14 & 199 ---Constitutional petition against police torture --- Petitioners had brought to the notice of the Court the conduct of the police in violating the dignity. of human beings for taking notice of then unlawful activities and protecting the dignity and honour of human beings --- Held, since a criminal case had already been registered against the police officials concerned and the had also beer. placed under suspension, no further action was called for --- Constitutional petitions were disposed of accordingly. ORDER Vol. XLVIII Rana Muhammad Afzal, Advocate had filed this writ petition to order registration of a case against the concerned police officials. He was prompted to file this petition on seeing a photograph appearifig in daily "Jang", Lahore dated 8-11-1995 with the caption: Lr' LJ) 1J zj~ '__ L),-, J; t - ea_ - LJ Z'/ According to the petitioner, the srene as it appears on the photograph is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which provides that dignity of man shall be inviolable and that no person shall be subjected to torture for the purpose of extracting evidence. 2. A report was called from the Inspector-General of Police, Punjab, Lahore to supply the particulars of the police officials appearing in the photograph in…

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