ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: A relative of London terror plot accused Rashid Rauf on Friday moved a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the 90-day extension in his detention. A Supreme Court Review Board, comprising Justice Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, Justice Hamid Ali Mirza of the Supreme Court and Justice Nadir Khan of the Balochistan High Court, had extended Rashid Rauf’s detention for three months recently.
Hashmat Habib, who is defending the accused, told this correspondent that Zahoor Akhtar, the brother-in-law of Rashid Rauf had filed an appeal to set aside the detention order and grant adequate compensation to his client by initiating disciplinary action against all functionaries who were ‘playing with the liberty’ of his client.
The petitioner also sought an order against the respondents to produce Rashid Rauf before the apex court besides disclose facts leading to his arrest and the outcome of the investigation. The federal government, through the Interior Ministry and Senior Superintendent of the Central Prison, Adiala, are respondents in the petition.
He also asked the apex court to restrain the respondents from removing the accused out of the court’s jurisdiction pending the instant petition.
Family reunion was also sought in the petition in addition besides seeking the provision of medical and legal help.
He also deplored that the accused was being painted as a ‘ring leader’, mastermind and a terrorist all over the world by government functionaries and said that it defamed and endangered the liberty of the accused.
The accusations, he alleged, were part of a global conspiracy and fabricated against Mr Rauf.
He questioned the logic of detaining his client when all people, allegedly involved in the imaginary plot, had been released by the British Police.
