LAHORE: Police officials tortured Geo T.V cameraman and seized his camera when he was shooting footages of police violence on lawyers amid long march, Geo News reported on Friday. According to correspondent, Geo News received reports on lawyers’ arrests and police violence in Gawalmandi area following which, Geo News team arrived on the place and started shooting footages. Meanwhile, SHO Gwalmandi police station Iftikhar Rasool and his private bodyguards tortured cameraman and seized his camera at gunpoint.

SHO Iftikhar was transferred to Gwalmandi police station last night and has a bad record in past, he said adding, “He was transferred to Lahore as punishment.”

Senior Superintendent Police Waseem Sial said the SHO Iftikhar has been dismissed on account of torturing Geo News cameraman but police have not registered case against him.

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