ISLAMABAD, May 9: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered forfeiture of property of Sindhi wadera Abdul Rehman Marri, a disciple of Pir Pagara, for his involvement in abduction of nine member of a peasant family.

The family of Munnu Bheel was abducted in 1998 and has been missing since then.

Headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, a three-judge bench directed the sessions judges of Sanghar and Mirpurkhas districts to carry out the confiscation order.

The court had taken suo motu action in the case on an application filed by Swedish human rights activist Torborg Isakssan.

On Monday the bench had issued a contempt notice to Chief Secretary Sindh Fazlur Rehman for transferring, on April 27, 2006, Deputy Inspector-General Saleemullah Khan, whom the bench had entrusted with the job of investigating the case, and thus flouting court’s orders.

The notice, however, was vacated on Tuesday when the official tendered an unconditional apology and informed the bench that the DIG had been reinstated to probe into the mysterious disappearance of Munnu Bheel’s family.

On court’s direction, the DIG was probing the allegations of torture of Naeem Arian (a poultry dealer) by Mirpurkhas police and the abduction of the family.