LAHORE, April 8: The chief justice of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction over the submitted report on the arrest and alleged illegal confinement of four Anjuman-i-Mazareen leaders, and sought fresh report from the police.

The CJ had put the Lahore and Okara SSPs under notice on a habeas corpus petition filed for the recovery of the four leaders.

The DSP (legal) appeared in the court on behalf of the two respondents, and submitted a report, which said the Punjab police was not aware of any such arrest. The report also denied the police custody of the four leaders, claiming that they were not required by the police in any case.

The court pointed out that the petition had clearly mentioned that the detenues were arrested by the police and Rangers, who subsequently took them to an unknown place. The report has failed to mention that who else could pick up them, especially when they did not have an enmity with any private party, the court questioned.

If it was presumed that police did not arrest them, even then the police was bound to trace and produce them in court. The court directed that a complete report on the whereabouts of the detenues be submitted afresh on April 14.

It was alleged in the petition that Anjuman-i-Mazareen leaders Younis Iqbal, Dr Christopher John, Sajid Baloch and Fahim Ahmad were travelling by a car on the Multan Road, Lahore, on April 2 when police official and Rangers stopped them. They allegedly took them to an unknown place and impounded their car.

It was also claimed that the whereabouts of the four leaders were not yet known to the members of their families and friends, while the law-enforcers had been showing ignorance in this regard.

The detenues had neither been nominated in any case so far nor had they been produced before a judicial officer for their physical remand, the petition said.