KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh informed an antiterrorism court on Saturday about the 90-day preventive detention of three officials of the Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) for questioning.

The Rangers along with their legal team produced Muhammad Khan Chachar, Rana Shahid and Kamran Abbasi in the chamber of the judge in charge of ATC-III, Akhlaq Hussain Larak, amid tightened security.

They submitted that in exercise of powers conferred by the provincial and federal governments, the Rangers picked up the suspects within the jurisdiction of the Boat Basin police station upon receiving credible information about their involvement in the offences related to targeted killing, kidnapping and extortion punishable under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997.

Subsequently, they added, the detainees were placed under preventive detention for three months under Section 11EEEE (1) of the ATA to hold inquiries against them.

In compliance with Section 11 EEEE (3) of the ATA the detainees were produced along with copies of the notifications, detention orders and jail warrants for the information of the court, they concluded.

The paramilitary force also arrested FCS vice-chairman Sultan Qamar Siddiqui a couple of days ago within the jurisdiction of the Sharea Faisal police station on similar allegations and put him under 90-day preventive dentition at the Mitha Ram Hostel, which has been notified as a sub-jail.

Meanwhile, the Rangers also produced two more detainees before the same court on Saturday and informed the judge about their three-month detention for grilling.

The Rangers’ legal team informed the court that Junaid alias K2 and Naeem Siddiqui, said to be political workers, were picked up within the jurisdiction of the Artillery Maidan and Preedy police stations.

They said that the Rangers had credible information about their involvement in the offences that came within the ambit of the ATA.

Published in Dawn, June 21st, 2015

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