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MULTAN, June 3: A bailiff deputed by district and sessions judge recovered 12 members of a family on Tuesday from a kiln in the city’s suburbs on a habeas corpus petition.
The detenus, including four women and three children, will be produced before the judge on Wednesday.
The bailiff gave all of them in the custody of a labour councillor of Mauza Durrana Langana with a direction to produce them before the court on Wednesday.
The judge had deputed the bailiff after petitioner Allah Rakha complained that Paan Gull Khan and Laat Gull Khan, the owners of a brick kiln at Mauza Jehangeerabad, had hired their services, but later started forcing them to do work without wages. He alleged his family members were being confined in a room and were taken out only for labour.
Those recovered included Shahzad, Kaneez Mai, Maryam, Rab Nawaz, Bharanwaan Mai, Ramzan, Babli, Allah Ditta, Haq Nawaz (12), Shabbo (12), Shah (1) and Shazia (1).
CONVICTED: The additional district and sessions judge on Tuesday awarded two-year imprisonment with a fine of Rs5,000 to a drug trafficker.
Akram will have to undergo additional two-month imprisonment in case of default.
He was arrested in 2001 by the Chelyak police with 150 grams of hashish.
WARRANTS: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 on Tuesday issued warrants against a DSP after he failed to appear before the court in a case relating to attack on a police officer.
DSP Habib Ahmad was issued notices repeatedly, and a show-cause notice was also issued to ensure his presence before the court as witness for hearing into a case relating to an alleged attack on the then CIA inspector, Ijaz Shafi Dogar, in October 2000.
He, however, failed to appear, following which the judge issued warrants for June 17 to ensure his presence in the court.—APP
