KARACHI: An elderly man on Friday died reportedly of a heart attack on the premises of the Sindh High Court, where he came to seek recovery of his young daughter allegedly kidnapped two years ago, his relatives said.

Ms Jullo, wife of Jumma Khan, had filed a petition seeking recovery of her 20-year-old daughter Shazia. The mother submitted in the petition that Farooq, another resident of their village in Sujawal, had allegedly kidnapped her daughter two years ago.

She further submitted that later Farooq was killed in a dispute with another person, who later married Shazia.

Suspect in fake identity case released

The petitioner asked the court to order recovery of her daughter from the custody of the respondent.

On Friday, the police produced the girl and her husband before a single bench, headed by Justice Saleem Jessar.

“Around 15 minutes after meeting his daughter Jumma Khan’s condition deteriorated and he died on the premises of the court,” Khamiso, a relative of Khan, told Dawn.

The relatives of the man, a retired employee of the revenue department, kept the body there and protested on the court’s premises to demand justice in the case.

Later, some litigants and lawyers present there pooled in some money and gave it to the relatives to take the body to hospital,” said Khamiso.

Man released

A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Friday released a man booked and imprisoned in a murder case for years due to fake identity.

Headed by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh, the bench passed the order in suo motu proceedings initiated on an application moved by Abdullah Shar, a resident of Ghotki district.

The applicant stated that his son-in-law had got made a fake ID card in his name in collusion with an official of the National Database and Registration Authority.

The applicant said that he was told that his ID card was needed in a property issue, but his particulars were deceitfully used to make an ID card in the name of Mohrab Shar, who was wanted in four cases, including a 2011 murder case.

Abdullah Shar further stated that the police had arrested him three years ago in the murder case and ever since he was incarcerating in the jail. He asked the court to order the authorities concerned to release him being innocent.

The bench members came down heavily on the investigating officer of the case for failing to have resolved the matter after the lapse of three years.

The bench ordered removing handcuffs of the applicant in the courtroom, while he was also served with breakfast and given new clothes by the court’s staff, the court officials said.

The judges ordered release of the applicant in the purported murder case, if his custody was not required in any other case, till further orders and adjourned hearing.

Published in Dawn, September 7th, 2019