Kano State High Court 4 sitting at Audu Bako Secretariat has ordered two operatives of the disbanded Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, to pay N50 million for killing Mustapha Idris Muhammad in 2019.
It was reported that SP Uba Bangajiya and Inspector Garba Galadima were charged before the court for alleged extrajudicial killing.
Presiding Judge Justice Y M Ubale said the accused persons were found guilty of the offence and ordered them to pay the deceased family the sum of N50 million.
Mustapha Hikima, the counsel to the family of the deceased, said the SARS officials had in 2019 arrested and detained the deceased for 14 days, beat and tortured him to death.
The SARS operatives had arrested Mustapha Idris Muhammad for alleged armed robbery.
Justice Y M Ubale sentenced the operatives to pay the sum of N50 million and present a public apology to the families of the deceased.
He, however, ordered them to return the deceased phone which is still in their possession.
