PESHAWAR, Nov 2: A resident of Chitral has requested the Peshawar High Court chief justice to help him in recovery of his wife who was allegedly taken away by a person in September this year.

The aggrieved person, Safeerullah Shah, has sent an application to the Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan stating his wife Roheeda Afshan was a student at Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, and had mysteriously disappeared on September 20, 2012.

He stated he belonged to Barnes village in Chitral and got married to Roheeda in April 2010. Both of them are aged around 20.

The applicant stated that through their own sources they came to know that she was taken away by one Munir Khan, a resident of Pandu Road Peshawar. He added they had registered an FIR at the concerned university police station in D.I. Khan wherein they had nominated the suspect Munir but the police had been dragging feet on the issue and provided the suspect opportunity to approach the court for getting pre-arrest bail.

Mr Safeer stated that when his wife disappeared she was in advance stages of pregnancy and few days ago she called her mother from undisclosed location and claimed she had given birth to a girl child. He claimed in a telephone call on October 12 his wife told her mother she was forcibly taken away and was administered drugs for keeping her unconscious.

Mr Safeer said officials of university police station and that of Pandu police post in Peshawar had been adopting lenient attitude towards the accused. He said they had been threatened by the accused family and other quarters asking them not to pursue this case.