September 06, 2007	Thursday	Sha'aban 23, 1428

RAWALPINDI, Sept 5: Police here on Wednesday informed the Lahore High Court that a seminary student held during the Lal Masjid operation and admitted to a hospital was free to go home.

Standing counsel for the federation Mirza Waqas Rauf and an additional SHO of Aabpara police told Justice Sajjad Ali Shah of the LHC that Hafiz Ziaullah was not wanted in any case.

Jamila Begum, a resident of Mandi Bahauddin, had moved the court on August 31 seeking access to her son who was arrested on July 10 with two bullet injuries.

He was admitted to Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi and operated upon.

The police handcuffed him after he was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital and did not show his arrest, leaving his family in the dark about his whereabouts.

The petitioner said when she was informed by someone that her son was admitted to the hospital she reached there but was denied access to him. She urged the court to allow her to meet her son.

Meanwhile, the court admitted the petition of a Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) worker against ‘illegal’ detention of his son.

Haji Ahmad Khan, president of the party in the provincial constituency of PP-13, in his petition said on the night of September 2 police and some people in civvies raided his house and took away his son Zeeshan Ahmad, who is the naib nazim of UC-38.

He said the whereabouts of his son was still not known and no FIR had been registered against him.

He prayed to the court that if there was any case against his son he should be produced before the court.