TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 18: District and sessions judge Shabbir Husain Chattha on Tuesday admitted for hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Mohammad Amjad, the son of kidnapped Gojra Union Council No 3 naib nazim Mohammad Younas, against the Sadar SHO.

The court ordered the SHO to recover the abductee and summoned him for Oct 21 to explain why he did not register a kidnap case according to facts of the case.

The petitioner stated the Gojra tehsil nazim seat had been won by Asad Zaman Cheema, a nominee of the opposition parties, so the government and its machinery was all out to ensure the election of naib nazim of their choice. And this was the reason why former tehsil nazim Khalid Warraich, the brother of ruling party MNA Amjad Warraich and MPA Bilal Warraich, and accomplices kidnapped his father, but the police excluded the name of Khalid Warraich from the FIR.

Meanwhile, speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, PML-N central leader Hamza, Gojra tehsil nazim Asad Cheema, ex-MPA Ihsanul Haq Gujjar, UC-3 nazim Manzoor Saeed, Amjad Younas and PPP leader Saifullah Cheema claimed that during a mediation move by Gojra judicial magistrate Ijaz Munir, the Warraichs had confessed to kidnapping, but the police were not recovering him.

They accused DSP Altaf Shah of supporting the Warraichs who had promised with him to kill the killers of his son. They alleged that the DSP was taking action against supporters of tehsil nazim Asad Cheema.

They claimed the DSP and hundreds of policemen kept in illegal confinement more than 1,000 citizens at the TMA offices for more than two hours on the pretext of recovering illegal arms from the guards of Asad Cheema on Monday on the eve of oath-taking ceremony.

They demanded early transfer of the DSP, and threatened that if their demand was not accepted, a sit-in would be staged in Gojra and a strike call given.

LOSS: Owing to a fault in the telephone system on Tuesday, the PTCL, PTCL wireless, telecard wireless, calling card companies, mobile phone companies and pay phone call offices suffered a loss of millions of rupees in Gojra, Kamalia and Pirmahal.