KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday issued notices to Customs authorities on a petition about alleged detention of a citizen.

The petitioner Mohammad Zaman approached the SHC and contended that the Customs officials had picked up seven persons in a Jackson locality on June 5 and later they set six detainees free, but did not release Ikram Khan.

Impleading the Customs officials, police and others as respondents, he further said that the detainee had so far not been produced before any court of law and his whereabouts were still unknown and pleaded for his recovery.

After a preliminary hearing, a two-judge bench of the SHC comprising Justice Yousuf Ali Sayeed and Justice Adnan Iqbal Chaudhry issued notices to the Customs authorities and other respondents for June 27.

Petition against reinvestigation of Siraj Durrani

Meanwhile, the same bench on Friday also issued notices to the National Accountability Bureau on a petition filed against alleged reinvestigation against Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani and his family members.

Agha Shahbaz Durrani, the son of the provincial assembly speaker, through his lawyer petitioned the SHC and contended that NAB had already filed a reference before the trial court against them for the alleged accumulation of assets beyond known sources of income, but the petitioner claimed that the anti-graft watchdog had been reinvestigating the same case.

The lawyer for the petitioner argued that NAB could not hold another investigation on identical allegations which were already pending trial.

Published in Dawn, June 12th, 2021