PESHAWAR, Aug 1: A bench of the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday summoned for Aug 16 the district police officer of Lahore and a DSP in a petition challenging alleged illegal detention of a person and registration of a ‘concocted’ case against him.

The bench comprising Justice Tallat Qayyum Qureshi and Justice Ijaz Afzal Khan was hearing the petition filed by Masood Khan stating that his brother Jalil Khan was first kept in illegal detention and then a fake case was registered against him at the Mughalpura police station, Lahore.

The petitioner’s counsel, Abdul Lateef Afridi, said Jalil Khan was kept in illegal detention for more than a month and then a narcotics case was registered against him.

The petitioner claimed that his brother had been picked up from the entrance of the Sher Khan Shaheed stadium on Dec 15, 2006, by a joint team, including the SHO of East Cantonment police station, Banaras Khan, DSP of Rawalpindi police, Rana Shahid, and the security in-charge of the stadium, Colonel Zulfiqar.

He said they had no information about Jalil Khan for sometime and then they came to know that a case had been registered against him at the Mughalpura police station on Jan 24. He had been charged with carrying three kilograms of charas.

The petitioner contended how could his brother smuggle narcotics when he was in the custody of law-enforcement agencies. He said that from Dec 15, 2006, to Jan 25, the detainee was kept in illegal detention and he was not produced in any court.

He prayed the court to declare his brother’s detention illegal and order to quash the case registered against him.

APPEAL DISMISSED: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by a drug trafficker and upheld the sentence of life imprisonment and a fine of Rs300,000 awarded to him by the trial court.