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HYDERABAD, Oct 20: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, on Wednesday disposed of a petition seeking recovery of three peasants detained by police.
Justice Syed Zawar Hussain Jafri and Justice Azizullah Memon disposed of the petition after they were told that the detained men had been released after the issuing of a notice to the regional police officer of Hyderabad to appear in the court.
Moharram Kalhoro had filed the petition against SHO Tasawar Jat and sub-inspector Asghar Shah of the Tando police station.
According to him, the police officers forcibly entered the houses of his brothers Rano Khan and Gahi Khan and relative Mir Mohammad in the Faiz Mohammad Kori village, Belaro Deh, and arrested them.
He also accused the officials of subjecting womenfolk to torture and taking away two goats, hens and cocks, gold ornaments valued at Rs50,000 and Rs20,000 cash.
The petitioner referred to an earlier incident in which Mir Mohammad was picked by respondents and released after payment of Rs15,000.
After the arrests, he said, the members of the family and the villagers protested on main road in Tando Adam road where police maltreated them.
He prayed the court to appoint a commissioner to carry out a raid and produce the detained persons if they were recovered.
On last date of hearing, provincial Additional Advocate-General Masood A Noorani said that Mir Mohammad had been arrested in a case. However, no statement was given regarding Rano Khan and Gahi Khan.
The SHC judges directed the RPO to personally appear in the court if the detained men were not produced before it. However, on Thursday the petitioner informed the court that Rano and Gahi had been released by police and his grievance had been redressed, therefore, he did not press the petition.
NOTICE: Meanwhile, the court has issued notices to the additional advocate-general and the SHO of the Market police station to attend the court on October 22 on a petition seeking permission for running a hotel inside the Civil Hospital Hyderabad in Ramazan.
Petitioner Ghulam Rasool Memon said that he had been granted the permission last year and the hotel was run for convenience of patients.
He said that police had no authority to interfere in his lawful business. According to him, on October 17, the Market police officials came at the hotel and asked his servants to close it. When he met the SHO, he was asked to close the hotel and issued threats.
He insisted that he was not bound to seek the permission from the police and prayed the court to restrain police from interfering into his business.
