KARACHI, July 20: The police on Wednesday declined to release Guddu Bihari, former nazim of Orangi, when a judicial magistrate raided a detention centre near Sohrab goth. The former nazim was later booked in a double murder case and handed to the Bahadurabad Police. The investigation police believed that Shahid Alam was allegedly involved in the double murder of two women, who were shot dead in 2003.

Earlier, Judge Sadiq Bhatti of the district and session court, Malir, deputed the judicial magistrate, Mohammed Ehsan Durrani, to raid a police kiosk near new Sabzimandi for the recovery of Mohammed Shahid Alam (Guddu Bihari) on an application by his brother Dr Shakir Alam.

The judicial magistrate reached the police kiosk with the applicant around 2:25pm and they found the former nazim detained there.

Dr Shakir Alam told Dawn that the SHO Jamil Akher Bangash expressed his inability to release Mr Guddu Bihari due to orders from the highups.

Defence counsel Shahadat Awan had moved an application before the judicial district and sessions judge, West, around 9:15am, stating that the former town nazim was kept illegally at the Pakistan Bazaar police station. The judge deputed a judicial magistrate who went to recover the detainee.

However, in the meantime Shakir Alam came to know that his brother was being kept at a kiosk within the limits of Sohrab Goth police. He, along with counsel Awan, rushed to the court of district and session judge, Malir, and around 12:30pm, they moved another application for the recovery of Guddu Bihari.

The judge deputed JM Durrani for the recovery of the former nazim and he was driven to the police kiosk by Dr Shakir Alam.

“Guddu was there. The magistrate asked the SHO to hand over his custody to him. However, the SHO refused to do so and whisked him away in a black-coloured Hyundai”, he said.

Dr Shakir Alam said the police also detained him and took him in a police mobile No 6263. He said the police asked the magistrate to leave.

“I gave the keys of my car to the magistrate, but the police snatched the keys from him”, he said.

Dr Shahid Alam said the police released him around 6:30pm after keeping him in illegal custody for over three-and-a-half hours.

Meanwhile, the investigation wing of Ferozabad police arrested Shahid Alam in the murder case of two women who were shot dead by unidentified persons in 2003. Police said that two women were waiting for a bus at Nursery bus stop when they were fired upon. An FIR (577/2003) was registered against unknown people.

The investigation police, after taking the custody of the former Nazim, have started interrogation into the case.

Jameel Soomro, a spokesman for the media cell at Bilawal House, alleged that Guddu Bihari was kidnapped from the custody of judicial magistrate, Malir, who had recovered Mr Bihari from illegal confinement of police on Wednesday morning.