KARACHI, June 23: The Sindh High Court on Friday issued notices to the secretary for the ministry of interior, the home minister of Sindh and the IG of Sindh for June 29 on a petition against alleged detention of suspected gangster Abdul Rehman alias Rehman Dakait by law enforcement agencies in Islamabad.
Ms Zubeda, maternal aunt of Abdul Rehman, submitted that he was arrested in Quetta on June 18 along with his brother-in-law Wajid, daughter Atiqa, 11, and son Atique, 8, and he was being illegally detained by the LEA.
The petitioner's counsel Omer Sial submitted that it came to the knowledge of his client that Rehman was shifted to undisclosed location in Islamabad by the LEA without producing him in any court of law and obtaining his remand.
He informed the court that an FIR (176/2006) was lodged at the Kalakot police station on June 19 in which Rehmat and his three associates -- Baba Ladla, Malik Arif and Ghafoor Choto – were declared absconder in a police encounter case and the brother-in-law of Rehman, Abdul Wajid, was shown arrested after said encounter.
The arrest of Rehman was shown on June 18 in Quetta and the said news was widely published in a section of the press, he added.
Naming the ministry of interior, the Sindh home department and the IG of Sindh as respondents, the court was prayed to order production of the detainee before the court and declare the confinement of detainee in Islamabad as illegal.
The petitioner also sought a list of cases pending against the suspect.
The SHC's division bench, comprising Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Nadeem Azhar Siddiqiui, after preliminary hearing of the petition issued notice to the respondents for June 29 and called comments from them.
Rehman, stated to be a main player of Lyari gang war carrying a bounty of half a million rupees, is wanted by police in at least 200 cases of murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping for ransom, extortion etc, registered at different police stations in Sindh and Balochistan.—PPI
