JHELUM: Parents in Jhelum have voiced strong outrage after a group of students was allegedly detained and mistreated by local police over minor traffic violations. The students were reportedly held in custody the entire day and produced before the court late at night, a move that families say has caused deep psychological distress.
Parents accused the police of using minor infractions as a pretext to “humiliate citizens at will,” questioning why their children were treated “like hardened criminals” for such trivial offences. Sources said the judiciary admonished the police for their actions and ordered all FIRs to be dismissed.
Families also complained that they were forced to wait for hours outside police stations while their sons, some of them school and college students, were kept in handcuffs and brought to court at night. “Yes, they may have violated traffic laws, but the punishment was far beyond anything justified,” one parent said, calling the treatment “inhumane and damaging for young minds.”
News Published in Express Tribune on December 7th, 2025.
