KARACHI, Oct 6: The Sindh High Court issued notices to the advocate-general and the industrial crime unit in a petition against the continued detention of a person without his production before a court.
Ms Mehmooda alleged that her son, Muhammad Ali, was picked up in the Baghdadi area on August 18. He had not been produced in any court nor informed of the charges against him. She had learnt that he was being detained by the industrial crime unit, Garden.
The petitioner feared that the detainee might be physically harmed as his arrest had not been shown to have been effected in any case. She requested the court to order his production as well as production of a list of cases registered against him.
A division bench comprising Justices Ghulam Rabbani and Azizullah M. Memon ordered that notices be issued to the respondents for October 10.
DISPOSED OF: The bench disposed of a petition seeking a direction against the shifting of Yasir Arafat, brother of alleged gangster Arshad Puppoo, from the Central Prison, Karachi, to a jail in the interior of Sindh. The petition also requested that the detainee be ordered to be produced in a court as required by the law. His counsel, Ilyas Khan, submitted that Arafat had been detained only because of his relationship to Arshad Puppoo.
Additional Advocate-General Sarwar Khan submitted comments on behalf of the jail authorities, who denied that the detainee was being shifted to another prison. They said he had not been produced in a court for security reasons. He was involved in a gang war and had a number of enemies.
As for the allegation that the detainee had been held only due to his relationship with Puppoo, the AAG submitted that Arafat was required in 23 cases, including heinous crimes.
The counsel did not press the petition after the AAG’s statement and the bench disposed it of as not pressed.
