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PESHAWAR, Oct 4: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday summoned the assistant political agents of Bajaur and Khyber Agencies and the superintendent of the Peshawar central prison while hearing 19 petitions filed by prisoners detained under the Frontier Crimes Regulations.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Tariq Pervez Khan and Justice Qaim Jan Khan directed the officials to appear on Oct 12 with the relevant record.
Petitioners Ashraf Khan, Sarbiland Khan, Bathin, Zahir Shah and others have sent the petitions to the chief justice.
Most of the petitioners claimed that they had been sentenced under the FCR and they had completed their prison terms but the administration was not releasing them.
A few weeks back the chief justice had taken notice of the issue and directed the government to compile details of all the prisoners detained under the FCR.
The chief justice was recently apprised of their plight by various prisoners held under the FCR during his visit to the prison. The chief justice had issued directives seeing details of the prisoners held under the FCR.
NOTICE ISSUED: The bench put on notice the NWFP advocate-general on a writ petition filed for registration of an FIR against four police officers for injuring the petitioners in a fake encounter.
It had taken up for preliminary hearing the writ petition filed by Iftikhar Ahmad and Imdadullah of Bhadabher.
Advocate Abdul Lateef Afridi appeared for the petitioners and contended that the petitioners were not required in any case and police had illegally fired on them.
The petitioners claimed that they were travelling in a car near Zhangali checkpoint on Kohat Road on Oct 17, 2005, when a police party comprising Assistant Sub-Inspector Granullah Khan and three others fired on them. The petitioners said they were injured in the firing.
The petitioners claimed that they requested the police authorities to register an FIR against the officials concerned but they refused to do so.
They filed an application under Section 22-A of the Criminal Procedure Code before the Peshawar district and sessions judge but that was dismissed in July.
They contended that the firing on innocent citizens by the police was illegal.
