PESHAWAR, June 20: A man illegally detained for the past four days by the police was recovered by a bailiff from the Faqirabad police station on Wednesday. The bailiff visited the police station on the orders of the Peshawar district and sessions judge, Miftauddin Khan, who was hearing a habeas corpus petition challenging illegal detention of the detainee, Alamzaib Khan.

Family members of the detainee charged the SHO of Pahariupura police station, Fayyaz Khan, with keeping the detainee in illegal detention since June 16.

They alleged that the SHO had purchased some pieces of land for which he kept people in illegal detention and released them after getting a handsome amount of money from them.

They alleged that earlier another person by the same name, Alamzaib, had been arrested by the SHO and he was only released after he had paid Rs60,000 to the SHO. They added that the SHO had now been asking for Rs200,000 in return for the release of the present detainee.

When the SHO came to know about the filing of the petition he shifted the detainee to the Faqirabad police station from Paharipura.

The bailiff raided the Faqirabad police station and recovered the detainee from there. He also found out that there was no case registered against him.

Following the visit of the bailiff, the SHO charged the detainee in a case pertaining to car lifting.

He was produced before the court of judicial magistrate Tilla Mohammad Khan, who sent the detainee to prison.

The district and sessions judge has fixed June 21 for further proceedings in the habeas corpus petition.

Advocate Bashir Khan Tanghi appeared for the detainee and contended that his continuous detention without production before any court was illegal and unconstitutional.

He added that the detainee had not been charged in any case.