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| December 9, 2005 | Friday | Ziqa’ad 6, 1426 |
Judges file petition against govt, police
SUKKUR, Dec 8: Two judges who had been kidnapped and released two months later after paying ransom field a petition in the Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, on Wednesday against the Sindh government, home secretary, PPO, Sukkur RPO, Larkana DIGP, Shikarpur DPO (operation) and 10 other police officers.
Nawabshah district and sessions judge Farooq Ali Channa and Hyderabad additional sessions judge-IV Abdul Wahab Abbasi prayed the court for payment of Rs12 million as compensation for mental and physical torture they had suffered at the hands of kidnappers, damage to their reputation and status and expenses of medical treatment.
Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani and Justice Zawar Hussain Jaffery of the SHC, Sukkur bench, ordered hearing on admissibility of the petition on Dec 13.
The petitioners said they had been kidnapped on Dec 3, 2004, while returning to Shikarpur after getting medical treatment in Larkana. They said Shikarpur additional district and sessions judge-III Aftab Ahmad Bughio had lodged an FIR with the Dakhan police.
They said kidnappers had taken them away by foot for about 10 hours and later kept them at different places in a jungle, causing them mental and physical torture.
They alleged that their kidnapping was the result of police negligence because they were bound to protect lives and properties of people. They further alleged that police had not made sincere efforts for their recovery. They said their location could have been traced from a mobile phone of Justice Channa which the kidnappers had taken from him and had been using it to contact their relatives for ransom.
They claimed that senior officers had officially collected millions of rupees from each police station for payment of ransom to kidnappers to get them released. However, they alleged, instead of making payment to the kidnappers, the officers misappropriated the amount.
They said they were forced to pay Rs4million as ransom to the bandits for their release. Chief Minister: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim said while talking to newsmen in Sukkur on Thursday that strict action would be taken against police officials if they were involved in the kidnapping of two judges.
He said the judges had submitted a petition in the Sindh High Court and hoped they would get justice. He said the court would decide about giving compensation to the judges.
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