LAHORE, Aug 29: Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Razvi of the Lahore High Court on Monday ordered the registration of a criminal case against sub-inspector Mukhtar Ali for faulty investigation into an FIR.

The court directed the Mandi Bahauddin DPO to register the case against him and report on Sept 14, the next date of hearing of a habeas corpus petition through which Asif Lateef, a resident of Mangat, submitted that the SI defied an earlier LHC order for an impartial inquiry into the case of the illegal custody of his wife by his father-in-law Nazar Mohammad.

The court censured Nazar for the illegal confinement of the petitioner’s wife. On this he promised that he would produce his daughter in the court on the next hearing date.

The petitioner stated that he married Asifa in September 2004 against her parents’ will. His father-in-law Nazar Mohammad, later, got registered an abduction case against him. He moved a petition for quashment of the FIR. The LHC disposed of the petition with instructions to the SI that he should investigate the case within the confines of the Police Order, 2002.

The petitioner submitted that he approached the SI in the light of the LHC judgment. The police official not only refused to listen to him but also illegally detained him at the Khatialan Sheikhan police station for about three weeks.

SHUMAILA: The same court directed the Gujrat Civil Lines SHO to recover Shumaila and produce her on Wednesday (Aug 31).

The order was issued in a habeas corpus petition through which Mohammad Asif Tahir, a resident of Kabli Gate, submitted that his father-in-law Mubashir Ahmad was keeping his wife under unlawful custody.

The petitioner stated that he married Shumaila in February this year against his in-laws’ will. However, owing to his efforts for a compromise, his father-in-law came to him in July and took Shumaila away with the promise that he accepted the marriage and would now make the “rukhsati” in a proper ceremony.

Later, Mubashir refused to keep his promise and even disallowed him to meet his wife who contacted him that her parents were physically torturing her as they wanted her to dissolve the marriage.

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